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Did The Trojan War Separate Historical Fact Or Legend?

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Due to the lack of information historians have on the Trojan War, it remains difficult to separate historical fact from legend. The archaeological evidence suggests that the Trojan War took place in 1200 B.C. Virtually all of the information historians have on the Trojan War comes from Homer’s the Iliad. Other information on the Trojan War burned in the Library at Alexandria. Technically, Homer did not write his epics. He could not see due to his blindness. Someone else penned the books for him. Historians know very little about Homer. They do know that he composed the epics the Odyssey and the Iliad in the seventh century BC, five hundred years after the war.
At this time in their development, Greece consisted of independent city-states. Spartans
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