Troy (TRIH ep 6)
1,260 BCE · Resource
Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook discuss the Trojan War: its mythic narrative, archaeological evidence, and cultural afterlives. They summarise Homeric plotlines (Helen's abduction by Paris, the decade-long siege, the wooden horse) and consider ancient and modern attempts to historicize the tale — from Homer, Herodotus and Thucydides to Heinrich Schliemann's 19th-century excavations at Hisarlik. They evaluate Hittite textual evidence (Wilusa, Ahiwawa) that may connect to Trojan traditions, a...
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Around 1260 BCE
- Zhou dynasty (1046 BCE)
- Exodus from Egypt (1300 BCE)
- Moses (1391 BCE)
- Olmec civilisation (1500 BCE)
- Phoenician alphabet emerges (1050 BCE)
- Ramesses II (the Great) (1303 BCE)
- Zoroaster composes the Gathas (1100 BCE)
- Zoroaster (1200 BCE)
- Phoenician civilisation (1500 BCE)
- Bronze Age collapse (1200 BCE)