[Tallguy]

Neat map, but the Greeks chose a strange place for a seige camp.

I don't know if the location was that strange. Consider that the Greek galleys would be beached & vulnerable to counterattack. By siezing a defensible peninsula you protect you ships & supply lines back to Hellas.

Britain & France did much the same thing at Normandy.

[Tallguy]

Ooops! Meant to say Britain and the US (with Canada, too)...

[Little Bill]

I think that the camp was probably closer to one of the river mouths. If I remember my Homer correctly the Greeks had a fortified camp, near the city.

Eberhard Zannger, a Geoarchaeologist has some interesting ideas on the subject, I corrisponded with him until my Ex threw my files away.