Where Troy Once Stood: The Mystery of Homer's Iliad & Odyssey Revealed - Softcover
The false assumption that the Trojan War was waged near Hissarlik in Asia Minor dates back to the 8th century BC when the first Greeks settled on Turkey's west coast. They did not know that the Trojans who once lived in that area were migrants, as the collective memory of this fact was lost during the Dark Ages. From 1180 to 1100 B.C., Hissarlik was indeed inhabited by a non-local people, the survivors of the Trojan War in England. The great migrations of the 2nd millennium B.C. brought also Troy's enemies, the Achaeans from west Europe to the Mediterranean. With the Achaeans came their gods and oral tradition including the Iliad and Odyssey, which were written down in Greek around 750 B.C. Meanwhile, the newcomers had renamed towns, rivers and mountains after familiar places in their former homelands. The transfer of place-names naturally led to the belief that the events described in the epics took place in Greece and the Mediterranean and that the Achaeans were Greeks. In this way, the origin of the Trojans and Achaeans was forgotten while the reality behind the Iliad and the Odyssey was lost as well. The purpose of this book is to tell that lost story, the story behind Homer's epics.
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- PublisherGopher Publishers
- Publication date2005
- ISBN 10 9051792085
- ISBN 13 9789051792089
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages428
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