The citadel (little city) or acropolis (upper city) at Troy is very famous but not very big. Its outer walls run in the dark area in the map...

Troy and the Trojan War were popular in the middle ages, but there was no copy of Homer in the west at that time.  Homer came back into west...

A few notes on what are known as the Troy Game and the Troy Dance. For the most part, a Troy Game is a Roman military exercise known as a l...

There are several stories about the destruction of Troy.  I will recite a few here and in future blog posts.  I am especially interested in ...

After looking at the Excidium Troiae , I decided to examine the Aeneid , which is its main source.  Virgil wrote this in the late first cent...

The Excidium Troiae [Destruction of Troy] (also known as the Rawlinson Excidium Troiae ) is a short, anonymous Medieval manuscript that tell...

Here is an old reference to Brutus of Troy , in a work published in 1287.  Historia Destructionis Troiae by Guido dele Colonne, translated b...