Archaeology of Troy

Troy is a case study in how a single site forces archaeology, philology, and myth to argue with each other: you work through nine superimposed cities to ask which one, if any, is Homer's, and what "Homer's" even means as a historical claim. Expect lectures and discussions tracing the excavation history from Schliemann through Korfmann and Pernicka, a midterm, a report you prepare and present, and a final, with the Anatolian Early-to-Late Bronze Age sequence as the backbone. It pairs naturally with Aegean and Hittite-world courses and is where the Trojan-War question stops being literature and becomes stratigraphy.