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Surroundings:

Seal of Tarkasnawa, King of MiraThe Odeon of Troy IX, built by Augustus and renovated by Hadrian in 124 ADSchliemann`s Scaean GateSchliemann`s Scaean GateTroy - Atena Temple - description in situEastern Gate of Troy VIIEastern Gate of Troy VIITo Ajax GraveTumulus of AjaxTumulus of AjaxView  the top of Ajax TumulusSurrowndings of the Ajax TumulusMoundSigeum - Sigeion on the ScamanderUvecik Tepe

Location:

  • Türkiye, Tevfikiye
  • geo:39.957367,26.238691
  • Location ± 5-25 m.

Period or year:

  • -3000~ / 450~

Class:

  • City
  • visible

Annotations

Ilion or Troy: town in northwestern Asia Minor, famous for the legendary Trojan War, in which a coalition of Mycenaean warriors captured the city of king Priam. Homer's Iliad deals with an episode from this war. Hittite:  Wilusa or Truwisa.

See:

  1. http://www.livius.org/to-ts/troy/troy_I-V.html
  2. Catalin Pavel, Homer and Archaeology: Perspectives from the East Aegean - West Anatolian Interface (In: V. Faranton, M. Mazoyer, eds., Homère et l’Anatolie, II, L’Harmattan, Paris, collection Kubaba, 2014, pp. 9-70)
  3. C. W. Blegen,  Troy and the Trojans. New York: Barnes & Noble Books, 1963

Ilium of Troje, bekend van de heldendichten Ilias en Odyssee van Homerus.


Nearby

Megaron of Troy II-III

Sanctuary of Troy II/III.

Pillar House, Troy

So-called Pillar House.


This object was added by René Voorburg on 2012-05-29. Last update by Elżbieta on 2022-03-29. Persistent URI: http://vici.org/vici/3184 . Download as RDF/XML, GeoJSON, KML.
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