ARTH 227 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Trojan War, Heinrich Schliemann, Tiryns
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Getting to the black sea you have to pass by really narrow. Ancient greeks very aware of the illiad- could always point back to entrances the time that troy was conquered. It was long ago in 8th century bc. New field of study: aegean pre history. Must have been pre 1200 bc b/c palaces were destroyed by then. Millawanada: base of the ahhiyawa of the hittite records, probably achaians. Hisarlik-troy: schliemann found 9 cities of ancient troy: more than 3000 years. Troy ii: turned out to be early bronze age, ca. 2400 bc: rich deposit of jewelry jewels of helen . Destroyed in bombing of berlin but found in early 1990s in russia: puts jewelry on greek wife, probably a funerary deposit w/ burial, troy is very active in international relations. Troy vi or troy vii have to be our idea of troy . Troy vi east fortress with bastionslightly slanted walls.
