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Troy - The World Deceived Homer's Guide To Pergamum

by John Lascelles

196 pages; quality trade paperback (softcover); catalogue #05-0729; ISBN 1-4120-5829-5; US$20.00, C$22.45, EUR16.50, £11.50

Homer's own words guide you to find Troy around the greatest acropolis east of the Aegean Sea. Resolve an ancient mystery at Pergamum in western Turkey.

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About the Book

The Greeks deceived the Romans about the site of Troy and time of the Trojan War to save their people from blood feud, revenge and genocide. Scholars have fallen victim to this deception after the fall of the Roman Empire had removed its purpose. These insights come from over 30 years of study of ancient history and the problem of Troy.

Historians and archaeologists are wasting time and resources in seeking Troy in the wrong place and time. Controversy boiled over into fisticuffs at a symposium in February 2002 at Germany's Tubingen University. Professor Frank Kolb led a team contesting the interpretation of findings by Professor Manfred Korfmann at the supposed location of Troy at Hisarlik in Turkey. Korfmann presented his views with computer-generated reconstructions in a BBC-TV Documentary produced by Aidan Laverty.

I propose that Homer's acropolis of Ilios became the famous Acropolis of Pergamum when reoccupied by the Attalid dynasty from 281-133 BC. Troy, the lower town, was located at the citadel hill of Musalla Mesarik rising from the oldest part of the town of Bergama in Turkey. Bergama is the Turkish corruption of the Greek name Pergamon.

The Attalid dynasty of Hellenistic times rebuilt on the Acropolis Ilios. They began at the highest level of the Trojan Acropolis, called Pergamos in Homer's Iliad.

Disappointed with his small "Troy" at Hisarlik, Heinrich Schliemann toured the Troad to seek another site to fit. He turned north from Edremit. Had he set eyes on Pergamum, he could have found the real Ilios and Troy only 75 miles away from his false "Troy." Archaeology struggles to defend his identification.

Pergamum is the greatest acropolis east of the Aegean Sea. Only Acrocorinth to the west of the Sea rivals its size. I show that ordinary tourists can find every feature around Bergama that Homer mentions in the Iliad and Odyssey.

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About the Author

John Lascelles was born in Auckland, New Zealand. He was educated in England at Royal Merchant Navy School and Canford School. Aged 16, he joined the steamship 'Port Caroline' as Apprentice for a wartime Atlantic convoy in December 1944.

As Second Officer (Navigating) with a British Ministry of Transport First Mates Foreign-Going Certificate of Competency, he left the sea 8 years, 19 voyages and 3 circumnavigations later. With a Diploma in Architecture (Oxford), he came to Australia in 1960 by government-assisted migration as a 'Ten-Pound Pom'.

He designed the tourist attraction Cat & Fiddle Square and animated mural in Hobart. In 1962, he joined the National Capital Development Commission in Canberra for Civic Design. From 1966, he worked on commercial projects and the Austin Hospital in Melbourne. Australia's beautiful capital drew him back to Canberra in 1969, where he continues to live. He is married and has two sons and a daughter.

His fascination with the mystery of Troy led him to explore Hisarlik (Truva) and Bergama in Turkey. The picture shows him in 1980 on the rocky brow at the summit of the mount he believes is Homer's famous hill Callicolone.

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