Heinrich Schliemann's excavations at Hissarlik at the end of the nineteenth century revealed a series of late bronze-age cities approximately on the site where Troy had always assumed to have stood.
There is ongoing debate about which of these cities was the actual Troy (several of them had been destroyed by military action) - but nobody seriously argues that Troy was mythical anymore.
The Iliad came first but it wasn't 'written' as a work of literature it was composed as an epic poem to be recited in the oral tradition
Agamemnon and Menelaus are the sons of Atreus.
Priam was his father, I forgot his mother's name.
Gives the Greeks courage in a bad situation.
how the hell am i supposed to know sincerely desiree leal
Senator Birch Bayh
lliad then the odyssey
Homer
it is the illiad
how the hell am i supposed to know sincerely desiree leal
that thosse stories were both mythology
Homer, the ancient Greek poet, wrote The Odyssey and The Iliad. They are epic poems that are foundational works of Western literature.
I beleive you are refering to the book Odyssey. It is a Greek epic poem written by Homer. It is also partly a sequel to one of his other works, Lliad.
the Trojan war because the poems talk about the war heros in the Trojan war.
Homer was one of the greatest (blind) story tellers during 1200 B.C, He wrote epics celebrating heroic deeds.
Hommer has been atributed with writing them , however this is still a matter of some contention it was really just homer who wrote different tales that you can read about........
The Iliad came first but it wasn't 'written' as a work of literature it was composed as an epic poem to be recited in the oral tradition