The Trojan War focuses on the struggle between Agamemnon and Achilles, and as far as historians are able to conclude there is no evidence of the existence of such heroes. The city of Troy is located in northwestern Asia Minor, only a few kilometers from the Dardanelles, or Hellespont, which connects the Aegean Sean to the Sea of Marmara. Therefore anyone wishing to sail through the Hellespont would have had to sail through waters near Troy; making it strategically locates along a very important trading route. Regardless of the lack of evidence of the occurrence of the Trojan War, the City of Troy has embraced the Homeric poem. This can be represented through the different forms of architecture found at the site of Troy. For example, the two of the reliefs that decorate the body of the Polyxena Sarcophagus, detail the final events of the Trojan War. Also, in a Late Archaic relief sculpture, the unfinished arm of the central figure of the sculpture extends into a tree to the left. This tree, according to the book The Architecture of Greek and Roman Troy, it is possible for this tree to symbolize palm trees and tripods, which occasionally appear in scenes of slaying at the end of the Trojan War. However, a possible problem with this theory is that such trees are usually intended to indicate the setting as a sanctuary of
The Trojan War focuses on the struggle between Agamemnon and Achilles, and as far as historians are able to conclude there is no evidence of the existence of such heroes. The city of Troy is located in northwestern Asia Minor, only a few kilometers from the Dardanelles, or Hellespont, which connects the Aegean Sean to the Sea of Marmara. Therefore anyone wishing to sail through the Hellespont would have had to sail through waters near Troy; making it strategically locates along a very important trading route. Regardless of the lack of evidence of the occurrence of the Trojan War, the City of Troy has embraced the Homeric poem. This can be represented through the different forms of architecture found at the site of Troy. For example, the two of the reliefs that decorate the body of the Polyxena Sarcophagus, detail the final events of the Trojan War. Also, in a Late Archaic relief sculpture, the unfinished arm of the central figure of the sculpture extends into a tree to the left. This tree, according to the book The Architecture of Greek and Roman Troy, it is possible for this tree to symbolize palm trees and tripods, which occasionally appear in scenes of slaying at the end of the Trojan War. However, a possible problem with this theory is that such trees are usually intended to indicate the setting as a sanctuary of