Mark Gagnon

Everyone would be like, we don't believe that.

Keep the horse out there.

She's got to know that you can reverse psychology the

Anyway, now that night, the Greek warriors crept out of the horse.

They opened the gates and signaled the fleet, which had only sailed to a nearby island they were hiding.

The Greek army poured into Troy, and what followed was just a massacre.

Priam was killed at his own altar.

Hector's infant son was thrown from the walls.

The women of Troy were enslaved, and the city itself was burned to ashes.

Troy fell and the story became immortalized.

Now for over 2000 years, many scholars in the early modern period, they heard this story.

They read the actual source material and they went through and they were like, yeah, this is just a story.

This is a metaphor talking about, you know, like honor and tragedy and, you know, family and love.

This is not a real, this is just a play.

It's not a real thing.

Homer's world of gods and heroes.

It's just, it's not history.

This is just a literary invention and nothing more.

However, some 19th century classicists did suspect that a real site was perhaps behind the legend.

And then in the 1870s, a German businessman named Heinrich Schliemann made a fantastic discovery.