One of our network’s members, Dr Stephan Blum, has published a great article in The Conversation which invites us to picture the ancient city of Troy at peace rather than at war. As he explains, Troy’s image in the public imagination has been defined by Homer’s epic poem The Iliad, which narrates the siege and destruction of the city during the Trojan War. However, archaeological evidence shows that this period of intense conflict was just a small part of the city’s extensive history, and that Troy’s inhabitants lived through centuries of peace as well as times of war. If we focus only on its wartime history, we will understand only a fraction of Troy’s fascinating past.
You can read Stephan’s article here. It captures exactly the kind of research which the Ancient Peace Studies Network seeks to foster.
