15 Jul 2024 Troy in Turkey or Troy in Britain? False Leads vs Hard Evidence By Anthony Adolph History & Tradition 0 Nobody reading Homer’s Iliad or Virgil’s Aeneid has ever failed to wonder ‘was this real?’ and ‘where was Troy?’. Homer’s Troy lay across the Aegean from Greece, whence the angry Greeks sailed to avenge the abduction of Helen. Since... Read More
17 May 2023 The Iliad: Overlapping Mycenaean Bronze Age And Dark Age Allegories By Mary Naples Archaeology & Science 1 Known as the “Age of Heroes,” the Mycenaean civilization (1600-1100 BC) was immortalized in the Homeric epics by such noteworthy characters as the imperious commander-in-chief “king of men” Agamemnon, the “swift-footed” war hero and... Read More