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The Trojan War Finally Explained

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The Trojan War is one of the most famous conflicts in human history, but it resides somewhere within the space between fact and fiction. The myth is just as much a part of the tale as the actual history. So keep watching as we dive deep into the truth behind the Trojan War.

The story of the Trojan War has been told and retold countless times, most famously by Homer in The Iliad. But its historical authenticity wasn’t always accepted as fact. In the 17th century, Blaise Pascal wrote,

“Homer produced a story, which he offered as such and was accepted as such: for no one doubted that Troy and Agamemnon had existed any more than the golden apple. He did not think he was making a history of it, merely an entertainment.”

But it turns out that there’s more truth to Homer’s tale than initially thought. In the 19th century, a Prussian businessman named Heinrich Schliemann went to what is now Turkey in an attempt to find the location of the Trojan War. In his excavations, he found numerous archaeological treasures that corresponded to the correct location, if not necessarily the correct time period, of Troy. Modern archaeologists later confirmed that these findings correlated with the existence of a city as well as its destruction. So despite Homer’s embellishments, he knew his history.

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Nine years of siege | 2:09
The rage of war | 3:52
The Trojan Horse | 5:00

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  7. Maurico Druon, secretary of the French Academy: "Albanians belonging to those people older than History itself. Albanian grandparents participated in the war of Troy, led by Achilles (on one side) and Hector (the other side) ".

  11. The best explanation of the Trojan War I have come upon was that given by Robert Graves, who begins by postulating that the first nine years of this 'war' consisted of pirate style raids against the coastal cities of Asia Minor and only after finally defeating the Trojan fleet in the 9th year of the war did they finally land and engage in combat……Graves explains that this is why Priam asks Helen to point out to him the chief warriors of the Greeks….a bit late in the war don't you think, if it had been at that time a 9 year long land battle??? It also explains why Agamemnon orders a palisade built to protect the camp and the ships…again, in the 9th year of the war? Seems the sort of thing one would do in the first year, maybe the first day. As for the Trojan horse itself, we now know a section of the wall of Troy came crashing down due to a severe earthquake, and it was this that allowed the Greeks to storm the city…since earthquakes were associated with Poseidon, they afterwards created a wooden horse in his honor (the horse being the sacred animal of Poseidon)…after the withdrawal of the Greeks, neighboring people entered the ruined city and found the horse and from this, the legend grew…

  15. In the Pennepolyesian League,… (However you spell it…) the city states swore by the gods of Zeus, Gaia, Phoseidon and others to do their mutual defense. This was around the time of 400 bc etc. The sacking of Troy is believed to be around 500 bc… and then a previous sacking involving Hittites 600 years before that.

    i would like to know if the greek colonies around those times in present day Turkey would have been considered the same or different religion than the greece greek speaking colonies?

    And this is interesting because the Assyrians would have had influence in the region only about 2 centuries prior. Plus what else would have been different between Turkey greek speaking colonies, and the western greek speaking colonies in Greece? And typically maps involving both leave out other greek speaking cities in other areas, which there were plenty of.

    Thanks.

  16. In the Pennepolyesian League,… (However you spell it…) the city states swore by the gods of Zeus, Gaia, Phoseidon and others to do their mutual defense. This was around the time of 400 bc etc. The sacking of Troy is believed to be around 500 bc… and then a previous sacking involving Hittites 600 years before that.

    i would like to know if the greek colonies around those times in present day Turkey would have been considered the same or different language than the greece greek speaking colonies?

    And this is interesting because the Assyrians would have had influence in the region only about 2 centuries prior… and that leaves you wondering how much things changed because of that. Plus what else would have been different between Turkey greek speaking colonies, and the western greek speaking colonies in Greece? And typically maps involving both leave out other greek speaking cities in other areas, which there were plenty of.

    Thanks.

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