Troy

Certain · Hisarlik, Turkey

Windy Ilios of the broad streets, Priam’s city between Ida and the Hellespont, besieged ten years for Helen’s sake and taken by the horse. Schliemann’s spade found a real Bronze Age fortress at Hisarlik in the 1870s — nine cities stacked, the burnt seventh a fair candidate for Homer’s. Every epic and tragedy of the fall in this library orbits this one hill.