| Iliad. Parts of Homer's tale are definitely fiction, according to National Geographic there is no evidence that Helen of Troy ever existed. Many archaeologists are digging deeper and think that the war was not a single event but a series of events. People have found sites that matched Homer's description of Troy in the correct area one place had walls to but they looked like the damage was caused by earth quakes not war. Some other people think that the famous Trojan Horse could have been a metaphor for Poseidon the god of horses, water, and earth quakes. Another ancient city that was found on the cite had evidence of war and siege there were arrow heads in the streets and things like that. It also had walls that looked penetrated but the city did not match the grander of the one in Homer's tale. Both of these cities seemed to have been destroyed around the same time as the Trojan war. One archeologist thinks that Homer might have mashed these two cities together into one tale of an epic war. So the story could have been exaggerated fact. Or true but tweeked. Even though there is no evidence that Helen ever existed the war could have been fought over something else, land. The city of Troy was located on good land near the sea. It would have been a major cross roads and Troy may have gained its wealth by taxing people that came through the sea port. One other theory is that the Greeks may have not even fought the Trojan War it could have been a lesser known group called the Sea Peoples from the area in modern day Italy. Inscriptions from Egypt say that this group was in Troy at the time of the Trojan war. But all of this evidence leads to the conclusion that the trojan war did exist. Many people believe that the Trojan War was just a myth but many people believe that it could be history. There is evidence for both sides of the debate. For instance Troy was a real place and the Greeks and the Trojans did often battle. Homer, an ancient greek historian who lived a couple hundred years after the Trojan War recorded a story called the click http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/05/0514_040514_troy_2.html to be transferred to the site this information was learned from. |