I have confessed on this blog once already that I find Homer's silence about a Trojan navy, and Trojan naval installations, such as por...

 As a result of recent massive changes to the Luwian Studies website, all of the links to their site on this blog now go to the landing page...

At one point in Laws , Plato cites Homer, then comments on him.  I recite the passage below, then comment on it.   Plato Laws , 681e-682e Pl...

Now there is before the city a steep mound afar out in the plain,  with a clear space about it on this side and on that;  this do men verily...

If I could fund a study, it might be a professional study of the Asmaks in the plain of Troy, including a live walking-scientist type search...

Heinrich Schliemann,  Ilios, The City and Country of the Trojans,  discussing the excavations of Dr Virchow: He dug a fourth hole in the dry...

I have already suggested on this blog that the entire story of a fortified Greek Camp might just be a myth.  In this entry I will argue at ...