Trojan War and Homer

Trojan is to Troy as American is to America.

The Trojan horse was probably real, but there is no physical proof due to the fact that it was probably made of wood which would not have stayed in tact for 3000 years.

Around 1200 BCE the mysterious "sea people" began to invade Mycenae, and burnt palace after palace.

So, the Dorians moved into this war-torn region, dominating from around 1150-750 BCE.

• Dorians were far less advanced
• The trade-based economy collapsed 

HOMER (storyteller)

• He composed stories (epics) of the Trojan war c. 750-700 BCE
• The Iliad - probably one of the last conquests of the Mycenaeans (the Trojan war)
• The Odyssey - Odysseus attempt to return home after the Trojan war, being thwarted by the angry god of the sea, Poseidon.
• The Odyssey is 12,110 lines of Dactylic Hexameter

Did Homer actually exist?

• The "Homeric question" - Homer may have been a mythical creation himself 
• A blind wandering minstrel; a heroic figure 
• Iliad and Odyssey may be the culmination of many generations of storytelling 
• Or he actually existed and told stories