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Troy - TourismToday there is a Turkish town
called Truva in the vicinity of the
archaeological site, but this town has grown up
recently to service the tourist trade. The
archaeological site is officially called Troy by
the Turkish government and appears as such on
many maps.A large number of tourists visit the
site each year, mostly coming from Istanbul by
bus or by ferry via Çanakkale. The visitor sees a
highly commercialised site, with a large wooden
horse built as a playground for children, then
shops and a museum. The archaeological site
itself is, as a recent writer said, "a ruin of a
ruin," because the site has been frequently
excavated, and because Schliemann's
archaeological methods were very destructive in
his conviction that the city of Priam would be
found in the earliest layers, he demolished many
interesting structures from later eras, including
all of the house walls from Troy II. For many
years also the site was unguarded and was
thoroughly looted
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TROY - LEGENDARY TROYThe story of the Trojans
first began in myth and legend. According to
Greek mythology, the Trojans were the ancient
citizens of the city of Troy in the Troad area,
in the land of Asia Minor (or Little Asia, now
Turkey). Troy was known for its riches, gained
from port trade with east and west, fancy
clothes, iron production, and massive defensive
walls. The Trojan royal family was started by
Electra and Zeus, the parents of Dardanus.
Dardanus, the legendary founder of Troy, crossed
over to Asia Minor from the insland of
Samothrace, where he met Teucer. Teucer was
himself also a coloniser from Attica, and treated
Dardanus with respect.
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Eventually Dardanus married Teucer's daughters,
and founded Dardania (later ruled by Aeneas).
Upon Dardanus' death, the Kingdom was passed to
his grandson Tros, who called the people Trojans
and the land Troad, after himself. Ilus, son of
Tros, founded the city of Ilium (Troy) that he
called after himself. Zeus gave Ilus the
Palladium. Poseidon and Apollo built the walls
and fortifications around Troy for Laomedon, son
of Ilus the younger. When Laomedon refused to
pay, Poseidon flooded the land and demanded the
sacrifice of Hesione to a sea monster. Pestilence
came and the sea monster snatched away the people
of the plain
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One generation before the Trojan War, Heracles
captured Troy and killed Laomedon and his sons,
except for young Priam. Priam later became king.
During his reign, the Mycenaean Greeks invaded
and captured Troy in the Trojan War
(traditionally dated to 1193 BC-1183 BC). The
Maxyans were a west Libyan tribe who said that
they were descended from the men of Troy,
according to Herodotus. The Trojan ships
transformed into naiads, who rejoiced to see the
wreckage of Odysseus' ship.Trojan rule in Asia
Minor was replaced by the "sons of Herakles"
dynasty in Sardis that ruled for 505 years until
the time of Candaules. The Ionians, Cimmerians,
Phrygians, Milesians of Sinope, and Lydians moved
into Asia Minor. The Persians invaded in 546 BC.
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Some famous Trojans are Dardanus (founder of
Troy), Laomedon, Ganymede, Priam, Paris, Hector,
Teucer, Aesacus, Oenone, Telamon, Tithonus,
Antigone, Memnon, Corythus, Aeneas, Brutus, and
Elymus. Kapys, Boukolion, Aisakos, and Paris were
Trojan princes who had naias wives. Some of the
Trojan allies were the Hittites and the Amazons.
The Aisepid nymphs were the naiads of the Trojan
River Aisepos. Pegsis was the naiad of the River
Grenikos near Troy.
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A Trojan law mentioned by E.O. Gordon allowed
queens as well as kings. This law was adopted by
King Dunvallo Molmutius (from Brutus) in his code
and is still in effect today in Britain.Mount
Ida ("Mount of the Goddess") in Asia Minor, is
where Ganymede was abducted by Zeus, where
Anchises was seduced by Aphrodite, where
Aphrodite gave birth to Aeneas, where Paris lived
as a shepherd, where the nymphs lived, where the
"Judgement of Paris" took place, where the Greek
gods watched the Trojan War, where Hera
distracted Zeus with her seductions long enough
to permit the taking of Troy, and where Aeneas
and his followers rested and waited until the
Greeks set out for Greece. The altar of
Panomphaean (source of all oracles) was
dedicated to Jupiter the Thunderer (Tonatus) near
Troy. Buthrotos (or Buthrotum) was a city in
Epirus where Helenus, the Trojan seer, built a
replica of Troy. Aeneas landed there and Helenus
foretold his future.