So I’m reading the Cliver Cussler book, Trojan Odyssey, and he mentions that the real site of the Trojan War was not in Turkey, but rather was in England.
I found this a fanciful tail, but knowing that a lot of authors spend time in research before including topics in their work, I decide to do a quick Google search. Sure enough, this site makes the claim.
There is even a book written on the subject by Iman Jacob Wilkens. I was just curious if any of you had heard this story and if the book is worth tracking down to read, or is it just a fount of misinformation?
Heh, I think it looks like a crock but here’s a section of the book for you to make your own judgment. I note, with absolutely no judgment whatsoever, that his very first piece of evidence that the Trojan War did not occur in Turkey is that Homer describes the see as being wine-dark rather than blue.
There’s a way out theory, with book, that the Odyessy and the Iliad fit Baltic geography better that Mediteranian geography and hence are Baltic myths transported to Greece (along with a whole lot of other random “facts”).
This kind of overlooks that Homer (whoever he/she/them was) probally had a pretty vague idea of the geography of the Med anyway.
I sailed from Bari to Patras many and many a year ago, which was an all-night cruise. When I stepped out onto the deck in the morning light I was stunned by the color of the water, which looked bluish purple to my eyes. I thought that “the wine dark sea” was a perfect description.