Attack on TroyA historical investigation on the Trojan War relying on both literary and archaeological evidence from a well-renown historian of ancient Greece. 3300 years ago Agamemnon, king of Mycenae in Greece, attacked the city of Troy in western Anatolia. The bloody siege that followed gave rise to one of the most famous legends of the ancient world, and the search for the truth behind the legend has intrigued scholars ever since. In this fascinating new investigation Rodney Castleden reconsiders all the evidence in order to establish the facts and give a historical basis to the most potent myth of ancient warfare. |
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The Greeks | 25 |
The Expedition Begins | 43 |
Arms Armour and Tactics | 72 |
Copyright | |
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Achaean Achilles Aegean Aeneas Agamemnon Ahhiyawa Ajax allies Anatolia Argos armour Arzawa attack on Troy barrow Battle of Kadesh Bay of Beşika Bay of Troy beach Beşika Bay Castleden 2005 Catalogue centre century chariot citadel wall city of Troy coast commanders Dardanian defending Diomedes ditch east Egyptian Epic Cycle excavated fighting Greece Greek camp Gulf of Edremit Gurney Hattusa Hattusilis Hector Hellespont helmet Hisarlik Hittite archives Hittite Empire Hittite Great King Hittite king Homer horses Iliad killed king of Ahhiyawa kingdom Korfmann Kypria late bronze age later Lesbos Lukka Lands Lykians Menelaus Miletus Millawanda Minoan mound mudbrick Mycenae Mycenaean warriors Nestor numbers Odysseus Patroklos Pedasos Piyamaradus Plain of Troy poems Priam probably Pylos raids reconstruction sack sail Scamander Seha River shield ships side siege engines south-west spear swords tablets temple Tiryns tomb tower town Troad Troia Trojan War Tudhaliyas walls of Troy western Anatolia Wilusa