Siedlungshügel mit Burg ) den Spaten ansetzte, war er davon überzeugt, daß die von Homer um 730 v.Chr. beschriebene Stadt Troia / Ilios des legendären troianischen Krieges der Bronzezeit hier zu suchen sei.
Bereits die griechisch-römische Antike hatte an dieser Stelle die Stadt des zweiten Jahrtausends v.Chr. lokalisiert - davon zeugen der städtische Ausbau Ilions wie auch die zahlreichen Tumuli im Umland, die wohl überwiegend dem Heroenkult dienten.
Allerdings geriet diese Kenntnis in Mittelalter und Neuzeit teilweise in Vergessenheit.
www.uni-tuebingen.deinhabited hill / mound with fortress ), he was convinced that the city of Troy / Ilium from the legendary, bronze-age Trojan War, described by Homer around 730 B.C.E., was to be sought here.
Graeco-Roman antiquity had already located the city on this spot - this is borne out by the expansion of the city of Ilion as well as by the numerous tumuli which predominately served hero cults.
However, this knowledge was partially forgotten in the middle ages and into the modern period.
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