Neuf années de Guerre de Troie

Abstract

The power of Priam’s kingdom rested on Troy’s favourable situation at the opening of the Straits, the currents of the Hellespont making compulsory the unloading of a majority of the goods prior to their transport overland. The hold of Priam’s power extended over the Dardanians and the Lycians, all of them peoples of the Troas, the intervention of Sarpedon’s Lycians owing a great deal to their homonymy. Moreover Priam was able to carry out a matrimonial policy which ensured him the support of the kings of South Troas. And so, once the blockade of Ilios achieved, the operations in the area followed suit with the conquest of Lyrnesse and Thebes where Achilles grabbed hold of a lyre, an object testifying to the existence of a Trojan poetic tradition and of an iron ingot, a proof of an advanced metalworking technique.

Keywords

• Priam’s power
• South Troas
• Dardanians
• Lycians
• Thebes
• Trojan civilization