Blegen Carl W. Troy and the Troyans

Frederick A. Praeger, 1963. — 240 p. — (Ancient Peoples and Places, Vol. 33).Troy is one of the most glamorous of all the ancient cities. It was the ardent faith and unquenchable enthusiasm of Heinrich Schliemann, the great German archaeologist, that converted legend — immortalized by Homer — into history when, between 1870 and 1890, he uncovered the actual site. A few years later, Wilhelm Dorpfeld confirmed the indentification, distinguished with greater precision the nine successive superimposed settlements, and established the contemporaneity of Troy VI and VIIa with Mycenae and Tiryns.
The Cincinnati expedition, of which the author was field director, obtained further valuable evidence between 1932 and 1938, indicating that Troy VIIa, sacked and burned shortly before the middle of the thirteenth century B.C., must have been Homeric Troy.
Professor Blegen presents the story of the excavations and discusses the major periods of the occupation of Troy — how the royal stronghold grew in power and wealth, survived a destructive earthquake, was rebuilt only to be devastated by fire and sword, was once more occupied in a twilight stage of decline, once more overrun, and ultimately abandoned.
The concise and authoritative text is accompanied by many drawings and plans, as well as a group of specially selected illustrations of the site and the many finds made there.Thoy of the Homeric Poems.
The Archaeological Troy.
The Early Bronze Troy: Troy I.
The Early Bronze Troy: Troy II.
The Early Bronze Troy: Troy III to V.
The Middle and Late Bronze Age: Troy VI.
Troy VIIa.
Troy VIIb.
Chronology.