Some time about 3,200 years ago, one of the most famous wars in ancient history took place.

Maybe.

It's been the subject of some of the greatest works of Western literature,

and has given us some of the most enduring cultural references, and it was also the subject of one

of the greatest archaeological finds of the 19th century.

Learn more about the City of Troy and the Trojan War on this episode of Everything Everywhere

Daily. The story of the Trojan War is one of the oldest stories in the world. It's the subject of the Iliad and the

Odyssey by the Greek poet Homer, as well as the Aniad by the Roman poet Virgil.

The Trojan War was also depicted in Greek and Roman art and songs and was one of the

most definitive events of the Bronze Age.

Maybe.

That maybe has to do with the fact that for centuries most historians assume that the Trojan War

was fictional.

Assuming it did happen, the epic poems which made it famous

weren't written until about 400 years after the fact. So imagine something that took place in the

early 17th century being handed down via oral traditions

and then being written about for the first time today.

At the time when the Trojan War took place, the entire area around the Aegean Sea was culturally Greek.

Troy was believed to have been located somewhere around the Dardnels on the Anatolian Peninsula,

in what is the modern day country of Turkey.

The story of the Trojan War is pretty involved and you

could easily spend hours of podcasting time going over it. So for the purposes of

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