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 ...

 Let's begin with a statement from Walter Leaf,  Troy, A study in Homeric Geography  (1912)  Firstly, as to the "spring of the plai...

 Peter Forschhammer visited the plain of Troy in 1839.  In 1842 he published the following:  There is no other plain in Asia Minor so much s...