Heinrich Schliemann, believed that this was the tomb of Achilles. Philostratus also seems to imply that this mound was recognized as the Achilleum. Alexander the Great made a pilgrimage to the tomb of Achiles at the start of his Asian Campaign.
See:
- Olivier Henry, Ute Kelp, Tumulus as Sema: Space, Politics, Culture and Religion in the First Millennium BC,Walter de Gruyter 2016, pp. 373 ff
- Jonathan S. Burgess, Tumuli of Achilles -file:///C:/Users/user/AppData/Local/Temp/file.pdf
- Casey Dué Hackney, Reviewed Work: The Death and Afterlife of Achilles by Jonathan S. Burgess, Hermathena, no. 188, Trinity College Dublin, 2010, pp. 71–76, http://www.jstor.org/stable/42950974.
- The Lost Tomb of Achilles-http://ancientheroes.net/blog/lost-tomb-of-achilles