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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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