[Nikas777]

I think the best scenario is that Troy and the Greeks were carrying out raids against each other - Viking style raids to loot cattle and women.

I never understood the position Helen held in the story - a willing captive that would belong to whomever was strong enough to hold on to her until I realized this has to do with the ancient practice of wife-napping and counting coup?

The Greek counter raids failed until an earthquake leveled the city walls and allowed the Greeks to take the city?\

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

The point in the source claiming that at the time of the war Greece did not yet have city-states, but only tribes seems odd. I thought that the war was during the Mycenaean period, when city states obviously existed.

The Illiad, of course ends with the death and funeral of the Trojan hero Hector, who is my favorite hero in the story.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks!