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The Fall of Mycenaean Greece and the Trojan War

Tides of History

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Homer and the Trojan War

The Iliad is actually just one of a whole series of epics that deal with the Trojan War. None of those others survive in anything other than fragments today. The Bors-Tusk helmet Homer describes was a genuine Bronze Age artifact. Other pieces of armor and weaponry mentioned in the text also belong to the Bronze Age rather than the later Iron Age.

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