Was Troy Greek or Hittite?

Troy appears in records from the Hittites (a civilisation which flourished in what is modern-day Turkey) as ‘Wilusa’, a name related to the Greek ‘Ilios’/’Ilion’, Homer’s other name for Troy.

Were the Trojan War Hittites?

The later Hittite name for Troy is Wilusa. By the Late Bronze Age the western Luwian lands were roughly grouped into five states, Troy/Wilusa being one of them. They occasionally acted together in war. Treaties exist between these states and the huge Hittite empire to the east of these lands.

Was Troy an ally or enemy of the Hittites?

New documents suggest that most Trojans spoke a language closely related to Hittite and that Troy was a Hittite ally. The enemy of Troy’s ally was the Greeks. The Greeks were the Vikings of the Bronze Age. They built some of history’s first warships.

What sort of relationship did Troy and the Hittites have under the terms of the Alaksandu treaty?

The empire was built out of a combination of military force and one-sided treaties. One such treaty was with king Alaksandu of Troy: it formally incorporated Troy within the Hittite realm as a vassal state and as a part of the Arzawa region.

Who was Achilles son?

Neoptolemus
Neoptolemus, in Greek legend, the son of Achilles, the hero of the Greek army at Troy, and of Deïdamia, daughter of King Lycomedes of Scyros; he was sometimes called Pyrrhus, meaning “Red-haired.” In the last year of the Trojan War the Greek hero Odysseus brought him to Troy after the Trojan seer Helenus had declared …

What is Troy called today?

Hisarlik
The modern-day Turkish name for the site is Hisarlik. The idea that the city was Troy goes back at least 2,700 years, when the ancient Greeks were colonizing the west coast of Turkey.

Who Killed Paris of Troy?

archer Philoctetes
Paris himself, soon after, received a fatal wound from an arrow shot by the rival archer Philoctetes. The “judgment of Paris,” Hermes leading Athena, Hera, and Aphrodite to Paris, detail of a red-figure kylix by Hieron, 6th century bc; in the Collection of Classical Antiquities of the National Museums in Berlin.