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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 January 2009
Although most authorities now agree in identifying Priam's Troy with level VIIa at Hissarlik, arguments are still advanced from time to time for reverting to the earlier identification with VI [h?]. Since it is accepted that VI was destroyed by an earthquake and not (or not primarily) by armed force, this means proposing theories to account for the discrepancy with Greek tradition. Either the Greeks never took Troy at all, and simply invented the legend that they did—in which case there seems little point in trying to identify Priam's Troy; or else the earthquake is symbolized by the Wooden Horse, under cover of which the Greeks finally entered Troy.
page 28 note 1 Most recently by Nylander, C. in Antiquity, xxxvii (03 1963), 145.Google Scholar
page 28 note 2 If the Troes were the horse-breeders of VI, the use of ‘Troy’ for earlier levels must be incorrect. It would have been better had the archaeologists stuck to ‘Hissarlik’ for all; but too late to change now.
page 33 note 1 Blegen, C. W., Troy and the Trojans (London, 1963), 116.Google Scholar
page 34 note 1 Blegen, , op. cit., chap. VII passim.Google Scholar
page 35 note 1 See p. 28, note 1, above.
page 36 note 1 Blegen, , op. cit., 171.Google Scholar
page 37 note 1 Page, D. L., History and the Homeric Iliad (Berkeley, 1959), 236Google Scholar ff. (on the meaning of Αἴαντε).
