Homer’s Iliad Casts Doubt on the Aegean Location of Troy

20 MAY, 2019 - 19:01 BERNARD JONES

Historian Bernard Jones has spent more than three decades researching the ‘Story of Troy’ and he maintains that Homer’s Iliad is the greatest reference work on the Bronze Age world. Homer describes with great accuracy an infinite number of matters relating to the natural world and the environment of the Greeks and Trojans. He gives flawless accounts of the oceans and the climate, the landscapes, the people and cultures. Bernard says that there is a wealth of evidence in the Iliad to be used in investigating the story of Troy. What Homer tells us however, casts doubt on the opinion that Bronze Age Troy was in the Aegean.

Britain’s Trojan History

by Bernard Jones

Whenever we think about the history of Britain, we could be mistaken in believing that this history begins with the Romans. It is as if there is a big black hole in the historical record before this time and then, suddenly, we have people in the island. It is, of course, a very convenient place to start because most commentators use the writings of Caesar to help them begin their exposition. When the Romans left Britain, the island was immediately subjected to the incursions of the Angles and the Saxons, and they became the ruling power in Britain. Here again, it is relatively easy for commentators to take up or continue their accounts simply by referring to the Angle and Saxon chronicles.

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