Troy with Ryan Stitt Part 2

Description: Today we are joined by Ryan Stitt of the History of Ancient Greece podcast to look at the history and myths of ancient Greece through the lens of the 2004 epic Troy starring Orlando Bloom, Brendan Gleeson and Brad Pitt. Ryan traces the earliest versions of the epic poem by Homer which is the basis of the movie, discuss the gods and characters involved and much more.

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This is beyond the big screen podcast with your host, Steve Guerra and a a podcast network member.

This is part two of a two part conversation on Greek history and mythology through the lens of the [inaudible] movie. Troy, I highly encourage you to go back and listen to part one. Don't worry. We'll be waiting for you beyond the big screen. Now we're back. We're back at Sparta and Helen is going off to try. What was the deal with it because then this is another one where troy went by like 35 different names. How culturally similar to the. Were they to the Greeks or were they completely different? There's a lot to that too,

so troy was special in the sense that it sat right there on the periphery of the hittite empire. So like in the hittite empire was very land. It was not very landlocked. It was landlocked. So troy was kind of like it's c arm, so to speak, that the theory is it got very rich as it traded inland with the hittites and beyond. So Heinrich Schliemann was the archeologists who found my [inaudible] and troy there's a long history of a shaman and we could talk about and that could take several hours. But anyway, when he got to troy found that there was nine cities, so like they built on top of each other all the way right up until the Roman era. So even after troy was sacked and we'll get to that later on, the Greeks build over it. They built another city and then the Romans built on another city on top of it.

So he dug all the way down. And so like the bottom, the lowest layer would have been the earliest settlement. So you find that like in the bronze age or the early, the early bronze age for the most part, they were technologically ahead of mainland Greece because for the most part civilization came east to west. So you know, the cradle of civilization was Egypt or booze in the Mesopotamian Egypt. And...

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