Source of Information: Principally the Iliad and the Odyssey, two epic poems by blind Homer, the greatest poet of classical antiquity and the greatest war correspondent of all time.
Date of Conflict: About 1100 B.C. Battlefield: The plains before the city of Troy, also known as Ilium, rediscovered in 1872 by the excavations of Heinrich Schliemann at the site of the modern Hissarlik on the River Scamander in northwest Turkey, just south of the Aegean entrance to the Dardanelles.
Belligerents: A league of Greek feudalities, led by Agamemnon of Mycenae ("King of Men"), v....
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