In the movies section there was someone mentioning that it was possibly where Cornwall is today. How likely is that in comparison to what Homer wrote that took place in Greece that most people are familiar with?
2007-03-10 17:41:40 · 10 answers · asked by Cinnamon 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Mythology & Folklore
Troy is the legendary city and center of the Trojan War, as described in the Epic Cycle, and especially in the Iliad, one of the two epic poems attributed to Homer.
Today, it is the name of an archaeological site, the traditional location of Homeric Troy, Truva, in Hisarlık in Anatolia, close to the seacoast in what is now Çanakkale province in northwest Turkey, southwest of the Dardanelles under Mount Ida.
2007-03-10 22:57:52 · answer #1 · answered by The Happy Atheist 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
If you refer to the book of Iman Jacob Wilkens 'Where Troy once stood', i need to mention that the author has completely missed the point of understanding Herodotus and Homer when writting his book. The author, and the whole theory about Troy being founded in Cornwall is based is based on the topographic uncertainty of historians to locate the area of Troy. The only evidence that exists is that of Homer. The Trojan War was certainly fought in the plain near Hissarlik which is now a part of Turkey. At that time, Troy (Ilion) was a Phoenician colony, an anatolian culture in contact with the Aegian world. Evidently, the war was initiated due to commercial/financial disagreements between the cities/states of Hellas and the Troy.
2007-03-10 23:13:55 · answer #2 · answered by mphermes 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
there have been 2 campaigns to triumph over Troy the 1st marketing campaign around 1100 bc replaced right into a failure and the greeks by no skill made it to the partitions of Troy. the 2nd marketing campaign replaced into made approximately 30 - 50 years later (that's the single that the Iliad describes)... the 2nd marketing campaign lasted for 10 years, war being made in basic terms via summer season and spring. The Iliad replaced into commited to paper incredibly much 500 years later around six hundred bc. What all of us recognize is that for the main section the individuals defined as engaging interior the combat have been genuine human beings. The tombs of the Greeks that took section have been stumbled on between the 1850s and Sixties... In between the Fifties Sixties Eric Sleeman stumbled on their Trojan opposite numbers in Dardanelia area in Turkey... He additionally stumbled on yet another city even older than Troy buried interior the ruins of Troy
2016-10-01 22:27:50 · answer #3 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not possible at all.
Troy was located in the Eastern part of the Medditeranian, in modern-day Turkey.
It was located in the late 1800's by Henirich Scliemann. Greece was at war with Troy - it wasn't located in Greece.
Your question is sort of like asking if Moscow might have existed in Argentina or Australia?
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2007-03-10 17:46:20 · answer #4 · answered by Orion 5 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Greece Try a few History classes
2007-03-10 17:46:36 · answer #5 · answered by hobo 7 · 1⤊ 3⤋
Troy was where it was expected to be - in western Turkey
2007-03-10 17:43:42 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Try the Balkans. Troy was in Denmark, Ogygia was in England.
2007-03-10 18:05:20 · answer #7 · answered by NONAME 7 · 0⤊ 3⤋
troy existed around what is turkey
2007-03-10 17:51:08 · answer #8 · answered by chuck h 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
nom its in greece somewhere, or in taht area, it was found in the 1960s i believe
2007-03-10 17:54:17 · answer #9 · answered by cav 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
It was in Turkey.
2007-03-10 17:44:00 · answer #10 · answered by Huggles-the-wise 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋