Homer Vs Shlieman

The epic of the Trojan War have two names that stand out even more than of its protagonists: Homer and Heinrich Schliemann. Homer, the greatest poet of all time, compiled stories of an oral tradition that sang the heroic deeds of a war that pitted the city of Troy with a coalition of Greek States to the 8th century BC. A war that happened five centuries before and that was the last heroic deed of a powerful civilization whose track would disappear from history soon after until little more than one century ago it was returned to find. So, for almost 3,000 years, that fabulous civilization destroyed Troy only became legend transmitted by Homer in the Iliad and the Odyssey, deeds so the war, and even the very existence of Troy was taken as an
After many efforts, Heinrich Schliemann had gone from being a dependent warehouse-to-be a rich merchant who spoke eight languages and knew the Iliad of memory. Throughout his life dream to prove that the poem of Homer was inspired by a real event and now, finally, had achieved enough money and free time that I needed to travel to Turkey. There he explored the coast of the Dardanelles with the Iliad in his hand, faithfully following the instructions of Homer on the site of the city and deduced that this could only be found in the hill city Hissarlik in todays. Schliemann bought the hill and began to
Massive attacks against allied cities, factories, colonies and Trojans settlements along the coast that would weaken Troy until not able to support a combined final attack. The end of Troy meant great wealth to the Mycenaean Greeks who now controlled the passage of the Dardanelles.
However, victors of the war and the rich, the Greek Mycenaean States succumb shortly thereafter in a still unexplained catastrophe which would fall razed one Mycenaean States that only RID Athens. A catastrophe that would continue sweeping all Asia Minor destroying the Hittite civilization or the cities of the Syrian coast. In Greece it began a "dark age" in which people returned to live in caves and not can only be considered an absolute return to prehistory because he managed to preserve ceramics, but even writing disappeared!. There were formerly reigned the Mycenaean prosperity now because there was nothing left: neither buildings nor beings. It was as if someone had erased at a stroke all rest of civilization in the area that displays the map above. Only a nation survived the hecatomb: Egypt, which managed to resist even at the expense of being shattered forever. It would never recover its former greatness, but he at least managed to