{"id":2901,"date":"2021-06-16T08:00:22","date_gmt":"2021-06-16T15:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yallatours.com\/blog\/?p=2901"},"modified":"2021-06-15T10:42:50","modified_gmt":"2021-06-15T17:42:50","slug":"turkey-tours-legendary-troy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yallatours.com\/blog\/turkey-tours-legendary-troy\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkey Tours: Legendary Troy"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2909\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2909\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2909\" src=\"https:\/\/www.yallatours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Turkey_Troy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2909\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">archaeological site of Troy in Turkey<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The archaeological site of Troy is located in western Turkey near the convergence of the Aegean Sea and the Dardanelles (ancient Hellespont), the strait that connects the Aegean to the Bosphorus and the Black Sea, a strategic location valuable to whomever controls it. A visit to Troy is included in several of our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yallatours.com\/turkey\/\">Turkey tours<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Excavations have revealed\u00a09 main layers of settlement going back 5 thousand years. The Troy immortalized by Homer in the Iliad, which tells the story of the final months of a 10 year siege of Troy by a coalition of Greek states, has been placed in layer VIIa, dated to around 1250 BCE. Scholars generally agree that the Iliad is a fictionalized, mythologized account of an actual conflict, but that\u00a0the war was most likely\u00a0over control of the Hellespont and trade access to the Black Sea, rather than the abduction of Helen, the queen of Sparta, as Homer tells it.<\/p>\n<p>Factual or not, the Iliad is full of very human characters and dramatic force that are embedded in the foundation of Western culture and still compelling 3000 years later. Troy is one of the most visited archaeological sites in the world, not because of a 3000 year old dispute over territory, but because of the mythical proportions of the characters and events placed there by Homer.<\/p>\n<p>So, that&#8217;s what we&#8217;re looking at in this post and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yallatours.com\/blog\/from-mycenae-to-troy\/\">previous post<\/a>, the story of Troy, the people (both mortal and immortal) and relationships that continue to give it life even now, when it physically bears little resemblance to its actual or imaginary self.<\/p>\n<p>When we left off in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yallatours.com\/blog\/from-mycenae-to-troy\/\">last post<\/a>, the assembled Greek warriors had just set sail for Troy, having purchased good winds with the life of Agamemnon&#8217;s daughter Iphigenia. They&#8217;re headed to get Helen, wife of Menelaus, king of Sparta, back from Paris, prince of Troy, who took her.<\/p>\n<p>Paris was exceptionally good-looking\u00a0but not particularly courageous. What made him think he could get away with stealing the wife of a king? Aphrodite, goddess of love, that&#8217;s what, or who. I don&#8217;t mean in a metaphorical &#8220;love will find a way&#8221; sense but in a literal sense, at least as literal as it gets in the realm of myth and legend. Here&#8217;s the story: Eris, the goddess of discord, was bitter because she was not invited to the wedding party of the hero Peleus and the sea-nymph Thetis. Eris was a troublemaker by nature. She took her revenge by tossing a golden apple into the party inscribed with the words &#8220;for the fairest.&#8221; The apple was instantly claimed by three goddesses &#8211; Hera, Athena and Aphrodite, all very beautiful and vain. None was willing to defer to another, so they took the case to Zeus. Zeus was\u00a0far too smart to get involved, especially considering one of the goddesses was his wife Hera, so he appointed the unsuspecting\u00a0mortal Paris as judge. The three goddesses appeared before Paris in a field, where he was tending sheep, and lobbied hard for his vote. Hera promised to make him the king of Europe and Asia. Athena offered to make him a great warrior. Aphrodite vowed to give him the love of the world&#8217;s most beautiful woman, Helen of Sparta. You know how that contest ended. Aphrodite was declared the fairest and the fate of Troy was sealed then and there. Not only was Paris about to bring the enmity of Greece down on his city, but the wrath of two goddesses as well. Troy was doomed. But it wouldn&#8217;t be a quick and merciful end.<\/p>\n<p>The siege of Troy lasted 10 years. Paris fought for his city but his brother Hector was by far the nobler warrior and man. Considering all the trouble Paris had caused, you can&#8217;t blame Hector for being hard on him, which he was, in a brotherly way. Mostly, Hector was busy trying to save the city and his family.\u00a0Most of Troy called for the return of Helen to Menalaus. Unfortunately, the big softy\u00a0King Priam\u00a0supported his son&#8217;s desire to keep Helen and treated her as a daughter.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, in the Greek camp Agamemnon and the great warrior Achilles squabbled over Briseis,\u00a0the\u00a0queen of a Trojan ally\u00a0captured in battle, and endanged their cause in the process. Briseis belonged to Achilles and Agamemnon took her, so\u00a0Achilles refused to fight. He was the Greek&#8217;s best warrior and\u00a0in his absence they lost a lot of ground. After his friend Patroclus was killed by Hector, Achilles returned to the battlefield in a fit of grief, mowing\u00a0down Trojan soldiers until the river ran red with blood. Eventually he met Hector and killed him.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2903\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2903\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2903\" src=\"https:\/\/www.yallatours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/g_hector_v_achilles.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2903\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Greek vase painting of the battle of Hector and Achilles<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2902\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2902\" style=\"width: 577px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2902\" src=\"https:\/\/www.yallatours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/achilles_hector_theoi.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"577\" height=\"408\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2902\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Greek vase painting of Achilles dragging the body of Hector. photo from www.theoi.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s pretty much the end of the Iliad but from other sources we learn about the wooden horse and the sack of Troy.\u00a0Odysseus, the wily\u00a0King of Ithaca, devised the plan to hide their best fighters inside a giant wooden horse, leave it at the gates of Troy and sail away. The Trojans fell for this and brought the horse inside. After dark, the hidden Greeks came out of the horse and opened the gates to the entire Greek army, which hadn&#8217;t sailed away very far. That was the end of Troy.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2905\" src=\"https:\/\/www.yallatours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/TrojanHorse.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2904\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2904\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2904\" src=\"https:\/\/www.yallatours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/sack_troy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"372\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2904\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Greek vase painting of the sack of Troy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Paris and Hector had been killed on the battle field, along with many other Trojans and allies of Troy, and most of those who survived the siege died in the sack of the city, including King Priam. Agamemnon survived the war and returned to Mycenae only to be killed by his wife Clytemnestra, who hated him for sacrificing their daughter Iphigenia. More about that in our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yallatours.com\/blog\/from-mycenae-to-troy\/\">previous post<\/a>. (That family&#8217;s tragedy goes on and on.) Menelaus and Helen returned to Sparta.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2908\" src=\"https:\/\/www.yallatours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Troy_ruins.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"399\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2907\" src=\"https:\/\/www.yallatours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Troy_Priams_Palace.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2906\" src=\"https:\/\/www.yallatours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/troy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p>To visit Troy, spend the night in Canakkale, about a 30 minute drive away. Many people find the site disappointing. It does take some imagination, and a good guide,\u00a0to connect with the history of the place but I wouldn&#8217;t miss it, especially if you&#8217;re a nerd for the Classics.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.yallatours.com\/turkey\/\">Click<\/a> to see tours that include Troy on our web site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The archaeological site of Troy is located in western Turkey near the convergence of the Aegean Sea and the Dardanelles (ancient Hellespont), the strait that connects the Aegean to the Bosphorus and the Black Sea, a strategic location valuable to whomever controls it. 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