[Verginius Rufus]

The Homeric epics are probably a mishmash from various eras--a few authentic details from the Bronze Age, but more from the later so-called Dark Age closer to the time the version of the poems we have was created.

The recent tendency seems to be to go back to the notion that the Troy of the Trojan War was level VI (not VIIA). The people doing the most recent excavations at Troy (since 1988) seem to be of that persuasion.

[Nikas777]

It is funny how much we don't know about the most famous war in antiquity.

Either the war was extraordinary enough to be remembered or Homer was so talented a bard he made it worth remembering.