The War of Troys Location

Part 5

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Then we come to the question about where the city of Troy was situated. Theophile Cailleux (1816–1890) was a Belgic lawyer. He discovered two large war-dykes North of Cambridge England. He also recognized that the rivers in the area matched the rivers in the description of Homer’s Troy. The exact location of Troy he believed to be the Gog Magog hills outside Cambridge. Then Heinrich Schliemann (1822-1890) a German businessman and archaeologist placed Troy in West Turkey pushing Cailleux’s theory into obscurity. Then in 1990, a Dutch-born economist Iman Jacob Wilkens published his book Where Troy Once Stood, making a lot of turbulence in the hysterical,....... oh sorry, I meant the historical communities.

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Wilkins theory places the Odyssey on the coast of Western Europe from Troy in England to the West Coast of Africa, across the Atlantic and back again to Europe. Troy, he places on the same place as Cailleux did, outside Cambridge. Felice Vinci says that Troy was placed in Finland. Wilkins and Vinci’s theories do not overlap at any point. Morten’s theory consists of Vinci’s travelling route but with Wilkins's and Cailleux's Troy in England and with his own Trinacria located at Trenyken.

With Troy located in England....... Sorry, England wasn't called England then. Before England become England it was called Britain but that was after The War of Troy. At the time of The War of Troy, England was called Abylon. So if the verbal story had contained the name Abylon, no one in Greece would know where it was because that name was no longer in common use at the time of Homer.

Brutus of Britain

Brutus of Britain is said to be a legendary descendant of the Trojan hero Aeneas. Aeneas settled in Italy after the Trojan war. A couple generations down the line Brutus was born. His Mother died during his birth and he killed his father shooting-accident with an arrow. This got him thrown out of Italy. He then went on a voyage in the mediterranean sea before he travelled through today's France. He crossed the British canal to the British islands, that at this time was called Albion. Here he became the first king to gather the whole country and he funded the city Caer Troia or Troia Nova in Latin (New Troy) on the riverbanks of the river Thames. This city name is later altered to Trinovantum. Where the Trinovantes is said to originate from. Then it’s said that Trinovantum was situated at the place where the Romans later established their settlement called Londinium. Today this vilage is known as London.

It makes sense that someone fleeing Troy in Abylon (England) would flee to Italy. You would definitely not flee East into the hands of they who had attacked you. It also makes sense that Brutus fleed back to where his grandfather come from where he probably had family and could gather support.

Conspiracy theory

I haven't been able to find any proof of a pre-Roman settlement In the London area. But that hopefully only proves that I have not been digging deep enough. Or that the Romans have been very efficient in removing the evidence. It seems to me that the Romans agenda would be to suppress the British Troy connection. That would make sense since their great achievements came as a result of their own faith in themselves. If someone started messing with this, then they could weaken the glue that was keeping the Roman empire together. It is said that history is written by those who win the war. To me, it now seems that wars are fought to protect history the way the leaders have written it.

Julius Cesar writes that during his first expedition into Britain. He met the strongest resistance by a group of warriors calling themselves The Trinovantes. These Trinovantes claimed that they were descendants of the warriors of Troy. The Romans also claimed to be the descendants of the warriors of Troy.

Knowing this, I would assume that the Romans started a more or less secret propaganda war to assure that their version of the Homeric texts was what would be believed to be the trough.

Julius Cesar wrote things himself and was interested in literature. One thing I am totally certain of is that he had read the works of Homer. Then why did he actually cross the Canal? The official version was that some Britons had supported some Germanic tribes that Cesar was fighting with so after defeating them Cesar continued after the Britons to punish them. But could there be an underlying reason? Could Julius Cesar have picked up rumours about this Troy connection? This might have triggered his curiosity and made him decide to go see for himself.

If this has any base in reality, I don't know. It's anyways incredibly exciting to play with the thought. It's also fascinating that Cesar after conquering Britain Cesar is ordered back to Rome by Pompey. The leader of the Senate. Cesar disobeys the orders to lay down his weapons and come unarmed. He brought his 13th legion and coat Pompey unprepared. Pompey fled to Spain chased by Cesar. From there he fled to Egypt where he was killed by assassins and Cesar following right behind. Cesar's fleet is there involved in by accident setting fire to some storehouses containing books and scrolls. Some say that it was accounting documents from the trade and shipping activities in the harbour. Other climes it was archives connected to the famous Libary of Alexandria. The Libary said to have contained a big amount of documentation concerning the works of Homer. Do I smell smoke? Or a smokescreen. It's said that this started the decay of the Alexandrian Libary. Did Cesar deliberately set the library at fire, and then buy up the rest of it little by little. If this is not based on proven reality it's a recipe for d... good entertainment if made into literature or movie.

Next up we look at how and why this become a "Greek" story.