Expert: Irulan Serena - 5/20/2004

Question
Did the seige of Troy actually occur? Was it really ended with the Trojan horse? What evidence outside Homer's Illiad is there for the whole story?

Answer
Hello Chris,

A definite yes or not answer cannot be given at this time.  Whether Homer's account of the Trojan War is factual or not is still a hotly contested debate.  Schlieman who  claimed to have discovered the  “real” Troy destroyed  so much evidence that it has been a most difficult issue to come up with an incontrovertible answer.

See the following sites which present a variety of views on this topic….as to a final solution, I don't think this will be happening anytime soon.

http://www.uc.edu/news/NR.asp?id=1589

http://www.khnl.com/Global/story.asp?S=1815313

http://www.iml.annenberg.edu/projects/troyVI/html/

http://mockingbird.creighton.edu/english/fajardo/teaching/eng120/troy.htm

http://www.uweb.ucsb.edu/~bmaatuk/troy.html

http://www.worldscreen.com/newscurrent.php?filename=ngc426

Hope these links help you,

Cordially,

Iru