IS THE TROJAN WAR A MYTH OR A REAL HISTORICAL EVENT?
Epic poem the is the most famed source for there ever having been a conflict between the ancient Greeks and Trojans. However, the historicity of the events depicted in this work – as well as those referenced in its sister epic, the – are less certain, as is the identity of their author, Homer. The poems have been dated to the late eighth or early seventh centuries BC, during a time when writing was becoming widespread in Mycenaean civilisation (the Late Bronze Age Greeks), but the narratives allude to earlier incidents, suggesting