The Trojan War, captured forever in Homer's epic poem the Iliad, resonates to the present day in the popular imagination, and this magnificent confrontation continues to exert a tremendous influence on modern audiences. But did Troy actually exist? And if so, where is it located? Was the Trojan War actually fought? If it was, did it take place over the course of ten years, as Homer wrote, or was it a much longer series of battles? And why was the war fought? Could Helen's face alone really have launched a thousand ships? In this course, esteemed professor Eric H. Cline examines the real history of Troy and delves into the archaeological discoveries (which continue to the present day) that help to answer the questions above. Through an entertaining and incisive analysis of known data, Professor Cline provides a fuller, richer understanding of this historic clash.Lecture 1 The Tale of the Trojan War: Introduction and Overview
Lecture 2 The Mycenaeans
Lecture 3 The Hittites
Lecture 4 The Sea Peoples and the End of the Late Bronze Age
Lecture 5 Greek Literary Evidence for the Trojan War and Its Sequence of Events
Lecture 6 The Homeric Question: Bronze Age or Iron Age?
Lecture 7 Hittite Literary Evidence for Troy: The Mycenaeans and the Trojan War
Lecture 8 Heinrich Schliemann and the City of Troy
Lecture 9 Priam's Treasure
Lecture 10 Wilhelm Dörpfeld and the City of Troy VI
Lecture 11 Carl Blegen and the City of Troy VIIa
Lecture 12 Manfred Korfmann and the Results of Recent Excavations
Lecture 13 Possible Motivations and Dates for a Trojan War
Lecture 14 Did the Trojan War Take Place?