The City Of Troy In The Liad Or The Odyssey

The city of Troy was a rich and powerful city. The Trojans controlled much land and were able to trade with many people around them. However they were not always rich, so how did they get to be? There are many poets who take hymns and descriptions of storytellers to give us the history of Troy in The lliad or The Odyssey, but non-are quite sure of how the city really started. The city of Troy was located on the northwest coast of what we call today, Turkey. There was no set Troy in the beginning; whenever one city was destroyed a new one would be built on top of it. Whether that destruction was from the causes of fires or other natural destructions, or invaders that had attacked them. Some of the people would move to a new country to start …show more content…
“There was at least ten ‘Troy’s’, no single City of Troy, laying on top of each other.” Writes researcher Gret Jan Van of the University of Amsterdam. The Greeks who made Troy into the city we know today finally founded it in 2920 B.C. and from there it took off.
What is the story of the Trojan horse? It is a very well known story around the world. However, do you know why it took place? Some believe it was just a myth, a fun story to be passed down from generation to generation. What then caused the Spartans, or Greeks, to build a huge hollow horse to hide in? According to the Homers writing, the war started with the capture of Helen, the wife of Menelaus, king of Sparta. They demanded that she be returned to them but the Trojans refused. Some believe, however that this could be a legend or story. An archeologist named Heinrich Schliemann conducted excavations in Turkey, where Troy would have been, and suggested that stories of Troy that we know today were based on real cities, events, and people. The Greeks began looking for ways to break into the city for about ten years, causing a long lasting war between them with no winner.