Nine Years of Attrition: Troilus & Palamedes
Troy’s fate was governed by a number of preconditions. The first said that the city could not be defeated if its young prince Troilus reached his twentieth birthday. So …
Category: Greek Mythology
An Inland Odyssey
But Odysseus wanderings were not over. Teiresias prophecy and later sources tell that, as reparation for killing the suitors, Odysseus was exiled for another ten years, leaving Telemachus to …
Troy in History & Today
Troy enjoyed a commanding position. Although today alluvial deposits from the River Karamenderes Qayi mean the coastline has moved almost 6 km away, in the early Bronze Age Troy …
The Death of Achilles & its Consequences
Achilles continued to harry his Trojan enemies and their allies. In single combat he killed both the Amazon queen Penthesilea and the Ethiopian king Memnon, the son of Eos …
The Iliad & Achilles’ Wrath
In the tenth year hostilities broke out in earnest. But there was further internal conflict in the Greek camp. Angered by Agamemnon’s refusal to restore the captured daughter of …
The Children of Priam
With his wife Hecabe, Priam had fifty sons and fifty daughters, among them the warriors Hector and Deiphobus, the handsome Troilus and the prophetic twins Helenus and Cassandra. When …
The Assassination of Agamemnon
To warn her of Agamemnon’s homecoming when war was over, Clytemnestra arranged a chain of beacons from Mount Ida near Troy, across to Samothrace and Mount Athos, and down …
Troy Map
Troy is situated off the E87 southwest of ^annakale in a gated compound amid flat wheat fields. From the car park the path leads past the old dig house …