In Part 2 of my proposed roadmap to the development of the Trojan War legend, I cover the Aeolic/Anatolian phase, which occurred in mainly in western Anatolian in the early Iron Age, and Mythopoetic phase, which happened along with the flowering of Ionian poetry in the 8th century, but may have had roots going back into the 9th. These are the two traditions with which Homer worked in the latter part of the 8th century, and whom I touch on only briefly, as I will cover his epic separately. Keep reading…
