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Message: <blockquote data-quote="shilsen" data-source="post: 1423524" data-attributes="member: 198">Historically, it's difficult to say if there was one Trojan War, and if there was, when it happened. Archaeological evidence suggests that Troy was sacked multiple times. The primary reason is probably just to do with trade. Troy is geographically placed perfectly along the sea route for trade between Greece and Asia Minor, and could probably exercise a lot of influence on (i.e. make money off) local trade. There is no historical evidence of Troy and Sparta as rival city-states, nor for the existence of Paris and Helen. Sure, every once in a while someone tries to argue that some find is linked to a character from the Iliad (Agamemnon's supposed death mask, for example), but all of it is very shaky.And just for the record, people are still debating whether what we think is the site of Troy really is so, whether the entire epic is simply a giant metaphor for the Greek battles against the barbarians and there was no historical battle/war, etc. Troy is a fascinating, but very troublesome, subject for historians and archaeologists and there isn't much consensus on it.</blockquote>