Greek PantheonCity
Troy
The legendary walled city besieged for ten years by the Greeks, eventually fallen to the cunning of the wooden horse.
About Troy
The city the poem besieges
Troy in the Iliad is Priam's walled town on the Scamander, fought over for Helen and for honor. Homer never tells the wooden horse; that is the Cycle and then Virgil. His Troy has temples of Athena and Apollo, a Scaean gate, and a fate Zeus will not lift. Hisarlik is the archaeology. The poem is not a campaign diary. Cult of the Trojan Athena is Homeric fiction until Greeks later claimed Troad shrines. The war's length is a verse convention.
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Troy among other places of the Greek Pantheon.
Sources and further reading
Source notes
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- Homer, Iliad 1
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By Elizabeth Stein for Mythos Atlas. About the author. Editorial notes are grounded in the site's cited sources and can be challenged through the contact page.
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