The Historical World behind
the Trojan War
Outline
1. Interest in Antiquity in physical remains
of Trojan War
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the historian Thucydides
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New Ilium and tourism
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Xerxes, Alexander the Great, Julian the Apostate
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Dares and Dictys
2. Excavations at Troy
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geography
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Frank Calvert and Heinrich Schliemann
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"Treasure of Priam" and "Jewels of Helen"
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stratification of site
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related peoples in Anatolia: Hittites, Luwians
3. Excavations at Mycenae
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the site, Lion Gate, "Treasury of Atreus"
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grave finds
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the citadel and palace
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the Mycenaean world
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related peoples - the Minoans
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Sir Arthur Evans
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Knossos on Crete
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Writings systems: Linear A, Linear B, Phaistos disk
4. The Dark Age and Homer's Iliad
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wanax v. basileus
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bronze v. iron: helmets and chariots
5. The Shield and Great People before Agamemnon
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writing: shields v. ekphrasis of the shield
Vixere fortes ante Agamemnona/ multi (Horace Odes
4.9.25-26)
Bibliography
c 2001 Wilfred E. Major
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