How Was Troy Really Destoyed?

[Meabh23]

We are lead to believe that Homer's account of the destruction of Troy is the most accurate. But Homer was a poet and we all know poets are into drugs. So let's leave that aside and delve into the matter.

[WokeUpDead]

The Trojan Horse sounds more like a story than fact but I'm guessing it probably was the Greeks that did it.

[Theres]

they foolishly outsourced their gate security to the Greeks. Homer is just spin.

[Cain]

I swear I wrote an answer to this. OK, excavation show that Troy was destroyed several times, including by an earthquake at least once. Posiden, god of earthquaks, had the horse as his symbol. Its possible that an earthquake breached the city walls, allowing the Greeks in to slaughter their enemies. After that, using the only materials available (wood), they left a thankyou to Posiden.

[Little Billy]

We are lead to believe that Homer's account of the destruction of Troy is the most accurate. But Homer was a poet and we all know poets are into drugs. So let's leave that aside and delve into the matter.

They stepped when they should have been testing.

That is all.

LB,
Never steps to Eris.

[Maggie]

We are lead to believe that Homer's account of the destruction of Troy is the most accurate. But Homer was a poet and we all know poets are into drugs. So let's leave that aside and delve into the matter.

Which Troy? The site was inhabited for centuries, Homer's Troy is near the middle, I think. From what I've read it was more or less a trade war. I've also read that Sparta's kingship was matrilineal so that if Menelaus wanted to keep on being king he needed to get Helen back. Could actually have been a factor too.


Maggie

[Paracelsus]

Some scholars believe that Homer "modified" the idea of the wooden horse from the Sanskrit Playwrite "Bhasa" - one of whose works features the capture and execution of a King by Soldiers hidden in a wooden elephant that is given as a gift...