Summary
Often thought of as an ancient, mythical idea, immortalised in the works of Homer, it's hard to imagine Troy as real place. But when Heinrich Schliemann started excavations of the city in the late 19th Century, our understanding of the ancient world would change forever. Troy stood for over millennia, and in that period was destroyed and rebuilt time and time again. So what do we know about the real people who lived there, and what does the modern archaeology tell us?
In today's episode Tristan is joined by Professor C. Brian Rose, the James B. Pritchard Professor of Archaeology at the University of Pennsylvania, to take us through this city's magnificent past. Looking at the people who first occupied the settlement, through to the modern age beauty contests that still take place on the surrounding slopes, there's a wide breadth of history to be covered. So what really happened during the Trojan War, if it actually happened at all?
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| 0:00.0 | It's the Entrance on History Hit. |
| 0:14.1 | I'm Tristan Hughes your host and in today's episode of this is a blinder. |
| 0:19.8 | We're talking all about the mega ancient history topic that is Troy. |
| 0:25.4 | We're not talking primarily on the Trojan War of the Epic poem, the Iliad and other |
| 0:33.1 | epic renditions of that story from the late Bronze Age of course reimagined in the 2004 |
| 0:39.8 | I believe epic Troy. |
| 0:41.8 | We're talking about Troy the city. |
| 0:43.5 | Troy the ancient settlement. |
| 0:45.0 | What is the archaeology revealed about this settlement over the ages for over some 3,000 |
| 0:52.7 | or 4,000 years of history? |
| 0:55.4 | Well to explain why I was delighted to get one of the leading lights on this. |
| 0:58.5 | A professor who has worked on Troy who has excavated a Troy for more than a decade. |
| 1:04.9 | His name is Brian Rose, professor Brian Rose. |
| 1:07.8 | He currently works at the University of Pennsylvania and this into was epic. |
| 1:13.6 | Brian takes us from the beginning of the Bronze Age down into the Byzantine period, |
| 1:19.4 | expending the many different layers of settlement at Troy and whether the archaeology has revealed |
| 1:26.6 | an epic Trojan War or as you're going to hear, whether there were many of them. |
| 1:32.2 | So without further ado to talk all about Troy, here's Brian. |
| 1:39.5 | Brian, thank you so much for taking the time to come on the podcast today. |
| 1:43.2 | My pleasure, thank you. |
| 1:44.5 | Now Troy, Brian when someone measures the word Troy people immediately think of that. |
| 1:49.0 | Homer and the Trojan War but archaeology, the work done at the site has revealed so much |
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