In this third installment of my essay, I consider the Iliad in context of the historical data discussed on Part 2, including the reliability oral transmission, survival of Greek culture and oral tradition through the “dark age” after the Bronze Age collapse, Anatolian contributions to the Trojan War story which would have been written, and possible correspondences between Greek myth and legend and the historical data. I also raise the intriguing possibility of the “missing man” of the Trojan War. Keep reading…
