I'm Ahill1

[Warmmedown]

Tiene autismo

 

[ahill]

I thought that the MC of Troy was called Troy (the "is there no-one else?").
@Hector did you lose to Achilles?

Troy is the city that Greece was invading duhh

 

[Warmmedown]

Damn. Oh yeh, like the band "Fall of Troy". I know it's a name too, as I've trained with a Welsh guy called Troy.

Is that the place where they sent a giant wooden horse as a gift and it had soldiers inside? Is that a real event? Was Troy real?

 

[Warmmedown]

I'm ahill2

 

[Warmmedown]

"I'm ahill3000, from the future!"

"No - I am the real ahill3000, from the future!"

"I'm just addicted to my smartphone, from the present"

 

[ahill]

Damn. Oh yeh, like the band "Fall of Troy". I know it's a name too, as I've trained with a Welsh guy called Troy.

Is that the place where they sent a giant wooden horse as a gift and it had soldiers inside? Is that a real event? Was Troy real?

Yeah. the Trojan Horse that they sent to Troy as a wooden horse, a "gift" that had many Greek soldiers hidden inside. Is there the expression "Trojan Horse" in English as an idiom for a gift or an opportunity that hides a trap?

 

[Sovran Nila]

It was me being kinda autistic and writing in Spanish and failing to write it right (as it's ¡Holla! ) haha

Thanks for updating us, over a decade later. We've been wondering ever since.

 

[ahill]

Btw there was Troy as an ancient city. But Troy was a series of cities, like several layers of cities built on top of one another (something that was common in the ancient Mediterranean). So Troy actually refers to a series of cities, Troy I, II, all the way up to Troy VII, which was the likely historical setting that inspired the Homer's Iliad. Ofc the way it is portrayed in literature with Gods, ten year was over Helen, even the Trojan Horse, is epic storytelling, not archaeology. There is archaeology and myth with Troy.

 

[Warmmedown]

Yeah. the Trojan Horse that they sent to Troy as a wooden horse, a "gift" that had many Greek soldiers hidden inside. Is there the expression "Trojan Horse" in English as an idiom for a gift or an opportunity that hides a trap?

Yeh there is that expression, though it's not such a common thing to hear. And the "trojan" type of computer viruses, where it's part of another computer program.

 

[Warmmedown]

Btw there was Troy as an ancient city. But Troy was a series of cities, like several layers of cities built on top of one another (something that was common in the ancient Mediterranean). So Troy actually refers to a series of cities, Troy I, II, all the way up to Troy VII, which was the likely historical setting that inspired the Homer's Iliad. Ofc the way it is portrayed in literature with Gods, ten year was over Helen, even the Trojan Horse, is epic storytelling, not archaeology. There is archaeology and myth with Troy.

Layers? Like the city fell and was rebuilt on the ruins?

 

[ahill]

Layers? Like the city fell and was rebuilt on the ruins?

Yep. Ancient cities didn’t “sprawl outward” the way modern ones do. When a city was destroyed, be it by earthquake, fire, invasion, or simply abandonment, people often rebuilt right on top of the ruins, packing new walls, houses, and streets over the rubble of the old ones. Over centuries or millennia, this creates a "mound", a kind of artificial hill made layer by layer by human hands.