Trojan plain and homeric topography

Abstract

Substantial evidence of the Homeric topography composes the Trojan landscape and maps out this particular area at the time of the Trojan War, in such a way that it is impossible to associate Homer’s Iliad with a “Trojan Bay”, facing the castle. The setting of the Iliad takes place in the entire plain, from Troy up to the Hellespont, from the city walls up to Straits and the Sigean promontory (Kum Kale). In this way, there must have been in-between the battlefield, the confluence of the two rivers, Scamander and Simoes (5.774), the swelling of the plain (Kumkioi) (throsmos), the Herculean Wall (“άμφίχυτον”) and, of course, the extensive camp of the Achaeans with its defensive wall, at a large distance from the coast of the Hellespont.