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6-7/3/21

https://www.ancient-literature.com/greece_homer_iliad.html

The story of the Iliad:

The Iliad only tells the story of the climax coming towards the end of the Trojan war. It doesn't tell the ending. The ending is also written by Homer in his book called the Odyssey
King Priam (namely the owner of the Priam's treasure) is the King of Troy and leader of the Trojan army.
Achilles is on the fence about battling and which side to battle for - eventually withdrawing from the war which brings the favour to the Trojans.
Hector son of Priam is often helped by Apollo's power and breaches the Greek camp, and wound Odysseus, Greek leader.
Achilles asks his friend Patroclus to disguise as him and scout out the Trojans. Patroclus doesn't take caution as Achilles warned and Hector finds him. Hector with the help of Apollo kills Patroclus thinking it's Achilles.
Achilles joins the fight and the battle approaches ten years - the climax and gods join the fighting instead of granting power and arguing about who to help and why not to sway the fight.
Achilles kills Hector
There's a twelve day truce and the Iliad ends with Patroclus being buried, Priam taking back Hector's body and Hector's funeral.

Odyssey:

Greek warriors hid inside the trojan horse as led by Odysseus – the horse was brought beyond the wall of troy and the Greek defeated the trojans from within.

As well as Priam's treasure, Schliemann discovered 46 layers of construction, separated in to 9 sections. This shows truth to the habitation of Troy being between 3000AD and 1350AD in now Hisarlik, Turkey on the northwest coast
On the 7th section, skeletons and charred debris (bronze arrow heads) were found, which supports the fact that Troy was burnt to the ground. (I think this was Korfmann in 1988 https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/drama/everything-you-always-wanted-to-know-about-troy-fall-of-a-city-but-were-afraid-to-ask/)

(Link opened and then next time I tried it said not available outside of EU- but I have screenshots of the page that a friend got)

Manfred Korfmann reopened the dig in 1992 and found stone ruins and more buildings and a ‘lower city’ This is what showed the cite was habituated from 3000BC to 1400AD and concluded the city of troy was wealthy and possibly used as a religious shrine.
Evidence from his dig leads to believe that Troy was the greatest city of its time from 1700 BC - 1250AD
The new size of Troy supports the Iliad and the idea that Troy could have survived a 10 year war, this wasn’t believed from Schliemann’s findings alone.
Korfmann revealed that Troy had 15 layers of fortifications

It may not have been A Trojan War, but multiple
possibly their influence of power and their wealth was more the reason that the Trojan War could have began. Over Helen of Troy being kidnapped by Trojan Prince Paris.

Troy was a tourist spot, shrines were about Roman culture and religion
Nothing has been revealed to help prove much after the Iliad besides the charred debris to suggest it burnt down like in the Odyssey

8/3/21

Agamemnon, leader of the Greek Spartans in the Trojan War
His brother was married to Helen when Paris Prince of Troy kidnapped her from Sparta - so he took revenge by staring the war
Schliemann found 5 gold leaf masks at Mycenae in Greece, this one was better kept than the rest and was thought to be a king’s, and Schliemann named Agamemnon’s. It was found on his corpse.
In recent research, the mask dated to 1550-1500BC which is three hundred years before Agamemnon existed - which can question how well everything else found links to the Trojan War.

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