Sunday, March 15, 2015








Troy is a city popular to both record and tale (as well as archaeology), and was located in northwest Anatolia in just what is now Turkey (but which was known in Classical sources as Asia Minor), located southern of the southwest end of the Dardanelles/Hellespont and northwest of Mount Ida at Hisaronu. It is best known for being the setup of the Trojan War described in the Greek Epic Cycle and especially in the Iliad, one of the 2 legendary rhymes associated to Homer.

A fresh new resources called Ilium was started on the site in the power of the Roman Emperor Augustus. It flourished up until the facility of Constantinople and decreased gradually during the Byzantine age.

Schliemann was at first hesitant about the recognition of Hisarlik with Troy, yet was convinced by Calvert and took over Calvert's excavations on the eastern half of the Hisarlik website, which was on Calvert's building. Troy VII has actually been identified with the Hittite city Wilusa, the probable source of the Greek, and is typically (however not conclusively) recognized with Homeric Troy.

Today, the hill at Hisarlik has offered its name to a tiny village near the wrecks, supporting the tourist trade going to the Troia historical site. The map here shows the adjusted Scamander tidewater with Ilium a little method inland across the Homeric plain.

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