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Troy, is a (city)[1] featured in Greek Mythology. It first appears around the time it was built.

Troy is based on the location of the same name in Turkey and from Greek Mythology.

History[]

Troy was a city situated in the far northwest of the region known in late Classical antiquity as Asia Minor, now known as Anatolia in modern Turkey, near the southwest mouth of the Dardanelles strait and northwest of Mount Ida. The present-day location is known as Hisarlik. It was the setting of the Trojan War described in the Greek Epic Cycle, in particular in the Iliad, one of the two epic poems attributed to Homer. Metrical evidence from the Iliad and the Odyssey suggests that the name Ilion formerly began with a digamma: Wilion; this is also supported by the Hittite name for what is thought to be the same city, Wilusa.

Ancient Greek historians variously placed the Trojan War in the 12th, 13th, or 14th centuries BC: Eratosthenes to 1184 BC, Herodotus to 1250 BC, Duris of Samos to 1334 BC. Modern archaeologists associate Homeric Troy with archaeological Troy VII.

In the Iliad, the Achaeans set up their camp near the mouth of the River Scamander (presumably modern Karamenderes), where they had beached their ships. The city of Troy itself stood on a hill, across the plain of Scamander, where the battles of the Trojan War took place. The site of the ancient city is some 5 km from the coast today, but 3,000 years ago the mouths of Scamander were much closer to the city, discharging into a large bay that formed a natural harbor and which has since been filled with alluvial material. Recent geological findings have permitted the identification of the ancient Trojan coastline, and the results largely confirm the accuracy of the Homeric geography of Troy.

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On-Screen Notes[]

  • Troy currently has ruins.
    • The walls of the acropolis belong to Troy VII, which is identified as the site of the Trojan War (c. 1200 BC).

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  1. ↑ In the ancient times, such as Greek Mythology, it is sometimes referred to as a world.
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