Troy - Myth or Reality?
1 x 50 minute episode
How much is truth, how much myth, in the strange
world, reminiscent of Middle Earth, which Homer created in the Iliad?
What really happened more than three thousand years
ago during the Trojan Wars? Did the beguilingly beautiful Helen of Troy
actually live? Can she really have fallen in love with Paris, the son
of the King of Troy, supposedly the most handsome man of his time?
Could the people of Troy possibly have fallen for the trick of the
great wooden horse? The story of the siege of Troy is an
irresistible combination of myth and legend. But how much of this
extraordinary story is spiced with fact?
It is time to ask the question – what really
happened?
• Troy - where the affairs of men are said to
have become entwined with the will of the Gods.
• Troy – where the love between a man
and a woman sparked a war that lasted for ten years.
• Troy – where a wooden horse brought
doom to a once-great city.
• Troy - what is truth, what is legend -
and how do we tell them apart?
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