Need to know about the History of Troy?

Question

Hi there!
Can anyone please tell me the history of Troy?
Like how old is it,who was the leader,where is it located,ect...

Please only reply if you know some helpful facts and history on Troy.
Please don't tell me to go watch the movie of it!

Thanks and Best Answer to the most informative answer!

Answer 1

According to mythology the Trojans were the citizens of the ancient municipality of Troy in the Troad region of Anatolia. Troy is presented in legend as part of the Greek culture of City states. Since the entire state comprised more than the city of Troy itself, anyone from its jurisdiction, which was mainly the Troad, might be termed "Trojan" in ancient literature.[2] An alternative classical Greek and Latin term was "Teucrians", a name taken from an ethnicity of the south Troad. Troy was known for its riches gained from port trade with east and west, fancy clothes, iron production, and massive defensive walls. The major language spoken there and the derivative cultures remain uncertain, although some good theories have been proposed. Legend for the most part ignores language and makes the presumption that Trojans had no problem understanding Greek.

The Trojan royal family was started by the Pleiad Electra and Zeus, the parents of Dardanus. Dardanus, who according to Greek myths was originally from Arcadia but according to Roman myths was originally from Italy, crossed over to Asia Minor

from the island of Samothrace, where he met King Teucer. Teucer was himself also a coloniser from Attica, and treated Dardanus with respect. Eventually Dardanus married Teucer's daughters, and founded Dardania (later ruled by Aeneas). Upon Dardanus' death, the Kingdom was passed to his grandson Tros, who called the people Trojans and the land Troad, after himself. Ilus, son of Tros, founded the city of Ilium (Troy) that he called after himself. Zeus gave Ilus the Palladium. Poseidon and Apollo built the walls and fortifications around Troy for Laomedon, son of Ilus the younger. When Laomedon refused to pay, Poseidon flooded the land and demanded the sacrifice of Hesione to a sea monster. Pestilence came and the sea monster snatched away the people of the plain.

One generation before the Trojan War, Heracles captured Troy and killed Laomedon and his sons, except for young Priam. Priam later became king. During his reign, the Mycenaean Greeks invaded and captured Troy in the Trojan War (traditionally dated to 1193–1183 BC). The Maxyans were a west Libyan tribe who said that they were descended from the men of Troy, according to Herodotus. The Trojan ships transformed into naiads, who rejoiced to see the wreckage of Odysseus' ship.

Trojan rule in Asia Minor was replaced by the Herakleid dynasty in Sardis that ruled for 505 years until the time of Candaules. The Ionians, Cimmerians, Phrygians, Milesians of Sinope and Lydians moved into Asia Minor. The Persians invaded in 546 BC.

Some famous Trojans are: Dardanus (founder of Troy), Laomedon, Ganymede, Priam and his children (including Paris, Hector, Cassandra and Troilus), Teucer, Oenone, Tithonus, Antigone, Memnon, Corythus, Aeneas, Brutus, and Elymus. Kapys, Boukolion and Aisakos were Trojan princes who had naiad wives. Some of the Trojan allies were the Lycians and the Amazons. The Aisepid nymphs were the naiads of the Trojan River Aisepos. Pegsis was the naiad of the River Granicus near Troy. "Helen of Troy" was born not at Troy but at Sparta.

Mount Ida in Asia Minor is where Ganymede was abducted by Zeus, where Anchises was seduced by Aphrodite, where Aphrodite gave birth to Aeneas, where Paris lived as a shepherd, where the nymphs lived, where the "Judgement of Paris" took place, where the Greek gods watched the Trojan War, where Hera distracted Zeus with her seductions long enough to permit the Achaeans, aided by Poseidon, to hold the Trojans off their ships, and where Aeneas and his followers rested and waited until the Greeks set out for Greece. The altar of Panomphaean (‘source of all oracles’) was dedicated to Jupiter the Thunderer (Tonatus) near Troy. Buthrotos (or Buthrotum) was a city in Epirus where Helenus, the Trojan seer, built a replica of Troy. Aeneas landed there and Helenus foretold his future.

Answer 2

Read the Illiad. That is where you will find everything there is to know about Troy. Heinrich Schliemann christened an archaeological site in Turkey after the legendary city, believing it was the real thing, but there is little reason to believe him.
I must admit i did not want to post an answer, as the other answers are almost perfect. They only miss the most important fact, that Troy is the stuff of legend. That is not to say that i deny the possibility of the Iliad having some basis in history, but rather that the mythical character of the narration obscures its historicity.

Answer 3

Troy is a city which existed over 4000 years and known as the center of ancient civilizations. In Bronze age, Troy has a great power because of its strategic position between Europe and Asia. In the 3rd an 2nd millennia BC, Troy was a cultural centre. After the Trojan War, the site was apparently abondoned from 1100 to 700 BC. About 700 BC Greek settlers began to occupy the Troas. Troy was resettled and named Ilion. Alexander the Great ruled over the area successively from the late 6th century BC. After Roman captured Troy in 85 BC. , it was restored partially by Roman general Sulla. After the occupation of Constantinople ( Istanbul ), Troy lost its importance. The Trojans were the citizens of the ancient municipality of Troy in the Troad region of Anatolia. Troy is presented in legend as part of the Greek culture of City states. Since the entire state comprised more than the city of Troy itself, anyone from its jurisdiction, which was mainly the Troad, might be termed "Trojan" in ancient literature.

Answer 4

Helen was said to have been "abducted' by Paris. However, because the goddess Aphrodite gave her as a gift to Paris for choosing her as the fairest among the goddesses, it is clear that Helen actually fell in love with Paris and voluntarily fled with him to Troy. Menelaus, king of Sparta and the original husband of Helen was thus enraged and in order to avenge his honor claimed that Paris "abducted" his queen. Menelaus sought the help of his brother Agamemnon, king of Mycenae and launched the Achaen troops (pre-Hellenic Greek army) who invaded Troy. Thus began the Trojan War. Troy is an ancient city and the capital of the Kingdom of Ilium. It was for this reason why the story of the Trojan War was told in Homer's Iliad (referring to the kingdom of Ilium where the city of Troy is located). For years many believed that Troy was just a mythological place until the ruins that suggested its actual existence was discovered in the northwest region of Turkey known as Hisarlik.

Answer 5

Homer's original works never once say the "Trojan" war took place with the Greeks. History has assumed this because Homer was supposedly a Greek.

Wilkens produces evidence that the "Trojan War" was actually fought over tin mining rights (needed to produce bronze) in England near Cambridge. By the time Homer wrote the Illiad and the Odessy, the Celts of northern Europe had spread to southern Europe, and brought their tales of past wars with them.

If one examines Homers works, and try to compare them to the Mediterranian region, it doesn't work. His hereos are red headed or blonde, fair skinned. The geography doesn't fit either.

Answer 6

I would never tell you to go watch the movie. Instead, I would suggest you do your own research by READING some parts of history books and by using a good search engine on the Internet. People on this site are sick and tired of your always asking them to do your homework. Many, if not most of us, decry the cheating. Do your own work!!

Chow!!