Ah, Benny's parents, thanks for coming.

Hiya.

So, Benny has really blossomed this term.

You're telling me, he outgrew his bike. We sold it, on eBay.

Oh, that's not quite what I meant.

It's free to sell on there?

Free to sell?

Easy too. Sold Benny's bike, your guitar, my jacket.

You sold my guitar?

Shall we talk about Benny?

When it's this easy to sell for free, you can't help but say when it's eBay.

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Hello and welcome to the History Extra podcast from BBC History Magazine, Britain's best-selling history magazine.

Hello and welcome to History's Greatest Mysteries. I'm Rob Atar, the editor of BBC History magazine.

This is episode three of the series, and today we'll be heading even further back into the ancient world and exploring one of the foundational episodes in Greek history,

the Trojan War.

Thanks to Homer's Iliad, this legendary conflict is ingrained in the popular imagination.

But how much of the story, if any, is actually true?

Was there ever a Trojan War?

To explore this question, I was joined by the award-winning author

and classicist Daisy Dunn. Before we get into the question of historical accuracy, I wonder if you could

just briefly summarise the legend of the Trojan War as it's come down to us. Well, we know the Trojan War mainly from the epics of Homer,

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