{"id":15403,"date":"2018-07-17T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-07-17T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/museumhack.com\/?p=15403"},"modified":"2022-11-20T00:55:38","modified_gmt":"2022-11-20T05:55:38","slug":"trojan-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/museumhack.com\/trojan-war\/","title":{"rendered":"The Real Story of the Trojan War"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thanks to school, movies, and condom branding, most of us are pretty familiar with the Trojans and the Trojan War<\/strong> with the Greeks. The long and the short of it from Homer\u2019s Iliad is that the Trojan prince, Paris, eloped with the Spartan king Menelaus\u2019 wife, Helen. Menelaus rallied all the Greeks, who besieged Troy for a while before they snuck through the gates inside a big wooden horse and sacked the city. Sean Bean played Odysseus in the 2004 movie. Now you\u2019re all caught up.<\/p>\n

But if you think about the Iliad<\/em> critically for a couple of seconds, it doesn\u2019t make any real-life sense. And that\u2019s fine\u2014Homer wrote us a very nice epic poem, but he wasn\u2019t Ken Burns. The Iliad<\/em> isn\u2019t a documentary, and it\u2019s definitely not a memoir, since the actual events that inspired Homer\u2019s story happened hundreds of years before Homer was born.<\/p>\n

Still, based on archaeological research, it appears that Homer wasn\u2019t just making sh*t up entirely. He took the raw grapes of history and distilled them into a narrative ouzo flavored with, uh, the anise of hyperbole, I guess? My point is that there are likely seeds of truth planted throughout Homer\u2019s version of the story, but we need to play a little game of myth vs. history to figure out which parts are supported with things like archaeology and empirical history, and which parts Homer dramatized so he could sell a screenplay almost 3,000 years later.<\/p>\n

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Was Troy, famed participant in the Trojan War, real?<\/h3>\n

In extremely old stories like the Iliad<\/em>, you can\u2019t take any of the information presented for granted as fact. These ancient narratives blend the line between legend and history, so our first question has to be: was Troy even a real city?<\/p>\n

The short answer? Kind of. Troy might have been upward of 10 actual cities, combined into one, using a little epic poetic license.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s a hill in Hisarlik\u2014in what is today northwestern Turkey\u2014that\u2019s home to the ruins of a number of ancient cities, built one on top of the other over the course of thousands of years. The oldest of these stacked cities dates back to the Early Bronze Age, around 3000 BCE. The youngest of the ruins are the remains of a Byzantine settlement that was abandoned in 1350 CE.<\/p>\n

So, we have a likely site, but we\u2019ve got over 4,000 years\u2019 worth of ruined cities to pick through to find Homer\u2019s Troy.<\/p>\n

The city that Homer called Troy was probably destroyed around 1200 BCE, following a battle. Afterward, it was inhabited by Greeks and Romans, who renamed the city Ilios, or Ilium, respectively. Ilium, in turn, faded into obscurity by about 500 BCE, until it was discovered by archaeologists in the 1870s.<\/p>\n

Since then, scientists have determined that about 10 different cities were once built on the hill in Hisarlik. Of those, the sixth and seventh cities built there could be the Troy ruled by King Priam, written about by Homer, and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures for international release in 2004. These ruins have been named Troy VI and Troy VIIa.<\/p>\n

How confident are we about these potential Troy ruins? About as confident as I am talking to women at bars (not very). Remember when I said archaeologists started digging up these ruins back in the 1870s? The lead archaeologist was German archaeologist (and former businessman) Heinrich Schliemann. He\u2019s famous for discovering the site, then using an amateurish approach to 19th-century archaeological method to dig through the layers.<\/p>\n

That is to say, he recklessly dug deeper and deeper\u2014right through the ruins that were most likely the Troy he was looking for, until he found a city that predated the Trojan war by at least 1,000 years. There\u2019s even a big gap in the excavation map where King Priam\u2019s palace was found. Schliemann removed it and threw it away. So we can all thank Schliemann for everything we do and don\u2019t know about these ruins. He discovered the site, then demolished a lot of the important bits with his hamfisted approach.<\/p>\n

So, it\u2019s a good thing a much better German archaeologist named Manfred Korfmann arrived at the dig site in the 1990s and helped unf**k his predecessor\u2019s work. Korfmann\u2019s team was able to go deeper, past the earlier excavations, and found a lower city. This city was much larger\u2014the previous excavations had unearthed a rather insignificant town\u2014covering 75 acres. That\u2019s 15 times larger than anyone had expected.<\/p>\n

This newfound city better matched our visions of Troy\u2014a big, important city, with a citadel bigger than anything else discovered across the region from the same time period. This was Troy VI. This Troy, however, appears to have been destroyed by an earthquake, rather than a battle.<\/p>\n

Troy VIIa, meanwhile, was almost definitely destroyed by a big battle, but this city doesn\u2019t quite match the grandeur of the Troy described by Homer.<\/p>\n

Nobody knows which of these two cities represents the Troy from the Iliad<\/em>. Troy VIIa, with it\u2019s battle, fits Homer\u2019s epic a bit more literally from the war perspective. But Troy VI looks more like the Troy in terms of scale.<\/span>1<\/sup><\/a><\/span> <\/span>2<\/sup><\/a><\/span> <\/span>3<\/sup><\/a><\/span> <\/span>4<\/sup><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Was Achilles, hero of the Trojan war, real?<\/h3>\n

The Iliad\u2019s<\/em> got a lot of characters: Hector, Paris, Helen, King Priam, Menelaus, and Odysseus, to name a few. They\u2019re all important characters, and Odysseus is definitely the focal point for Homer\u2019s sequel, the Odyssey<\/em>. So who\u2019s the main character for the Iliad<\/em>, then? I\u2019m giving it to Achilles. Homer\u2019s main purpose in writing the Iliad was to portray Achilles\u2019 wrath. The other characters I named, they\u2019re all human, even if they\u2019re exaggerated. Were they real people? I doubt it, but they could have been.<\/p>\n

But Achilles? He was the son of an immortal sea nymph. I don\u2019t mean to sound cynical, but immortal sea nymphs aren\u2019t real. Even if they were, I\u2019m not sure a human could get one pregnant.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s my point here? Well, if arguably the most important character from Homer\u2019s version of the Trojan War was a mythological character, then perhaps the whole damn war was a myth, too\u2014a metaphor that stood in for something else.<\/span>5<\/sup><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Was the Trojan War real?<\/h3>\n

If you had been around to read the Iliad when it first came out, you would\u2019ve been familiar with a great, lost city, perhaps called Troy, and the story of a great war that had destroyed it. The ruins of this great city were visible and still very impressive in Homer\u2019s day. These ruins would have been inspiring\u2014inspiring enough to encourage, say, a bard to write a very long poem creating a mythos around said ruins.<\/p>\n

The resulting Iliad<\/em> is likely the result of that inspiration. Homer\u2019s purpose in writing the Iliad<\/em>, to my mind, was to take a real piece of history\u2014the destruction of a great city\u2014and fill in the gaps to create a compelling story about how you shouldn\u2019t f**k with the gods, or indeed the sons of immortal sea nymphs, lest they kill you and raze your city.<\/p>\n

So, perhaps Troy really was destroyed by a great battle. Or many battles over the course of many years. We know now that many cities had been built and destroyed at Hisarlik, but maybe Homer saw a collection of ruins and imagined one, great city\u2014envisioning Troy as an amalgam of all the civilizations that had been lost at this site.<\/span>6<\/sup><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

But the part about the Trojan Horse? That\u2019s got to be myth. History is loaded with legends about military commanders who were not just brave, but cunning, using clever tricks to defeat the odds and claim victory. The Trojan Horse is one of many examples of this type of allegory.<\/p>\n

Just because the horse probably wasn\u2019t real doesn\u2019t mean it can\u2019t give us clues about the historical Troy. The Trojan horse was likely a metaphor for Poseidon, god of the sea and earthquakes. What do horses have to do with the ocean and earthquakes? I\u2019ve got no clue, but the comparison would\u2019ve made sense to ancient Greeks\u2014the horse was Poseidon\u2019s animal. Also, Poseidon\u2019s pro-wrestling stage name was \u201cEarth shaker.\u201d<\/p>\n

Remember when I said earlier that Troy VI looks a lot like the Troy, but it appears to have been destroyed by an earthquake rather than a war? Consider the possibility that the Trojan War was really a metaphor for conflict between human civilization and the gods. The Trojan Horse, therefore, would have represented an earthquake, sent by Poseidon, to destroy the city of Troy once and for all.<\/p>\n

Remember: The Trojan War was part of a poem.\u00a0<\/h3>\n

OK, so maybe the Trojan \u201cWar\u201d was more like a Trojan earthquake. Or maybe it was a war, or a series of wars. Maybe \u201cTroy\u201d was also Ilios, and Ilium, and, like, seven other cities.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s the thing: it could be all of the above. Homer might have looked at the beautiful ruins of a city he knew as Ilium, dating back hundreds of years, spanning various iterations, layouts, and civilizations. It was a city that, to Homer, might have appeared older than time, and which was now lost but not entirely forgotten.<\/p>\n

Seeing this, Homer may have been awe-struck, his imagination fueled by the mystery of this once-great city, inspiring him to write the Iliad<\/em>, as the mystery of these ruins demanded a story to explain them. Homer may have heard tales of a terrific earthquake or great battle. And both may have been true, albeit for different iterations of the lost city.<\/p>\n

Homer wasn\u2019t an archaeologist or an anthropologist. He was a poet. Poems are intentionally fantastical, obtuse, and layered. They are inherently subjective and allude to more than one thing. Given that, it\u2019s possible that Homer\u2019s Iliad<\/em>, and his Trojan War, are creative stand-ins for all of the above: earthquakes, wars, and maybe even a number of cities built upon the same plot. That\u2019s poetry, man.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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