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The text related to the cultural heritage 'Archaeological Site of Troy' has mentioned 'Homeric' in the following places:
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| Homeric ancient city in northwest Asia Minor | WIKI |
| Contents 1 The name 2 Homeric Troy 3 Excavation history 3.1 The search for Troy 3.1.1 The Calverts 3.1.1.1 Charles Lander 3.1.1.2 Frederick Calvert 3.1.1.2.1 Calvert investments in the Troad 3.1.1.2.2 Crimean War debacle 3.1.1.2.3 The "Possidhon affair" and its aftermath 3.1.1.3 Frank Calvert 3.1.2 The Schliemanns 3.2 Modern excavations 3.2.1 Wilhelm Dxc3xb6rpfeld 3.2.2 University of Cincinnati 3.2.2.1 Carl Blegen 3.2.3 Korfmann 3.2.4 Becker 3.2.5 Recent developments 4 Site conservation 4.1 Troy Historical National Park 4.2 UNESCO World Heritage Site 4.3 Troy Museum 5 Fortifications of the city 6 Prehistory of Troy 6.1 Table of layers 6.2 Troy Ixe2x80x93V 6.2.1 Schliemann's Troy II 6.3 Troy VI and VII 6.3.1 Calvert's Thousand-Year Gap 7 Historical Troy 7.1 Troy in Late Bronze Age Hittite and Egyptian records 7.2 The Trojan language question 7.3 Dark Age Troy 7.4 Classical and Hellenistic Troy (Troy VIII) 7.5 Roman Troy (Troy IX) 7.6 Ecclesiastical Troy in late antiquity 7.7 Modern ecclesiastical Troy 8 Alternative views 8.1 Unusual locations 8.2 Medieval legends 9 See also 10 Notes 11 References 12 Reference bibliography 13 Additional sources 13.1 General 13.2 Archaeological 13.3 Geographical 13.4 Concerning ecclesiastical history 13.5 Concerning legend 14 External links | WIKI |
| Homeric Troy[edit] | WIKI |
| Further information: Homeric Question and Historicity of the Iliad | WIKI |
| Homeric Troy refers primarily to the city described in the Iliad, one of the earliest literary works of the Western Canon. | WIKI |
| The Homeric legend of Troy was elaborated by the Roman poet Virgil in his Aeneid. | WIKI |
| The Greeks and Romans took for a fact the historicity of the Trojan War and the identity of Homeric Troy with a site in Anatolia on a peninsula called the Troad (Biga Peninsula). | WIKI |
| Alexander the Great, for example, visited the site in 334xc2xa0BC and there made sacrifices at tombs associated with the Homeric heroes Achilles and Patroclus. | WIKI |
| Recent geological findings have permitted the identification of the ancient Trojan coastline, and the results largely confirm the accuracy of the Homeric geography of Troy. | WIKI |
| [6][7] In the second half of the 19th century archaeological excavation of the site believed to have been Homeric Troy began. | WIKI |
| Homeric experts often memorize large parts of the poem. | WIKI |
| Frederick also bought a farm he intended to work, the Batak Farm (named for the Batak wetlands), later changed by Frank to Thymbra Farm, because he believed it was the site of Homeric Thymbra, after which the Thymbra Gate of Homeric Troy had been named. | WIKI |
| [69] As Calvert was a principal authority on field archaeology in the region, his findings supplied evidence that Homeric Troy might have existed on the hill, and played a major role in convincing Heinrich Schliemann to dig at Hisarlik. | WIKI |
| Schliemann put this assemblage together from his first excavation site, which he thought to be the remains of Homeric Troy. | WIKI |
| Remains found in the ditch were dated to the late Bronze Age, the alleged time of Homeric Troy. | WIKI |
| The latter city has been dated by his team to about 1250xc2xa0BC, and it has been also suggestedxe2x80x94based on recent archeological evidence uncovered by Professor Manfred Korfmann's teamxe2x80x94that this was indeed the Homeric city of Troy. | WIKI |
| As Schliemann states in his publication Troja: "I have proved that in a remote antiquity there was in the plain of Troy a large city, destroyed of old by a fearful catastrophe, which had on the hill of Hisarlxc4xb1k only its Acropolis with its temples and a few other large edifices, southerly, and westerly direction on the site of the later Ilium; and that, consequently, this city answers perfectly to the Homeric description of the sacred site of Ilios. | WIKI |
| It was not until the need to close "Calvert's Thousand Year Gap" arosexe2x80x94from Dxc3xb6rpfeld's discovery of Troy VIxe2x80x94that archaeology turned away from Schliemann's Troy and began working towards finding Homeric Troy once more. | WIKI |
| [114] During his excavation of more than three hundred yards of the wall, Dxc3xb6rpfeld came across a section very closely resembling the Homeric description of the weaker section. | WIKI |
| Schliemann himself had conceded that Troy VI was more likely to be the Homeric city, but he never published anything stating so. | WIKI |
| If Homeric Troy is not a fantasy woven in the 8th century by Greek oral poets passing on a tradition of innovating new poems at festivals, as most archaeologists hoped it was not, then the question must be asked, "what archaeological level represents Homeric Troy?" | WIKI |
| This event is considered the start of Late Bronze Age Troy, and Homeric Troy is considered to be Late Bronze Age Troy. | WIKI |
| The language was an early dialect of Greek, even earlier than the Homeric dialect. | WIKI |
| If pu-ro is the Homeric Pylos, then the date is after the Trojan War, as the legendary Pylos survived it intact. | WIKI |
| The 1995 discovery of a Luwian biconvex seal at Troy sparked heated debate over the language that was spoken in Homeric Troy. | WIKI |
| In both Blegen and Korfmann, Homeric Troy ends at the end of Blegen's Troy VIIa, Korfmann's VIi, with the burning of the city, presumably by Achaeans. | WIKI |
| As Homeric Troy had been called "sacred Ilium," Korfmann asserts that a temple district may have been maintained there during the apparent abandonment period, but whose is not known. | WIKI |
| [138] In May 334 Alexander the Great crossed the Hellespont and came to the city, where he visited the temple of Athena Ilias, made sacrifices at the tombs of the Homeric heroes, and made the city free and exempt from taxes. | WIKI |
| A small minority of contemporary writers argue that Homeric Troy was not at the Hisarlik site, but elsewhere in Anatolia or outside itxe2x80x94e.g. | WIKI |