![]() ![]() However, we also find indications that the war was more extensive than commonly envisioned. We find that NWA coins are rich in early Iliadic mythology, indicating that Ilium was a Trojan War setting. ![]() CWA regions include South Mysia with nearby islands, Aeolis, Ionia, Lydia, and Phrygia, as well as Cilician expatriate lands. NWA includes the regions known as Troas, North Mysia, Hellespontic Thrace with nearby islands, and Bithynia. We then focus on numismatic evidence in the alternative regions of Northwest Anatolia (NWA) and Central West Anatolia (CWA). We review their case, the places frequented by Homer as possible clues, and the Iliad’s revision as compiled and promoted by Athens and followed by Alexander the Great and the Romans. A case is made in recent books by Lascelles and Crowe that Homer’s Trojan War setting was not at Schleimann’s Hisarlik site of King Priam’s Ilium, but at Pergamon. ![]()
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