Troy Troy Troy (, "Troia" or Τροίας, "Troias" and , "Ilion" or , "Ilios"; and ; Hittite: "Wilusha" or "Truwisha"; ) was a city in the far northwest of the region known in late Classical antiquity as Asia Minor, now known as Anatolia in modern Turkey, just south of the southwest mouth of the Dardanelles strait and northwest of Mount Ida. The present-day location is known as Hisarlik. It was the setting of the Trojan War described in the Greek Epic Cycle, in particular in the "Iliad", one of the two epic poems attributed to Homer. Metrical evidence from the "Iliad"
Troy: Fall of a City the fire-haunted dreams of Cassandra, and about mankind’s ancient rush towards betrayal." A review from the same day by Rupert Hawksley for "The Daily Telegraph" tentatively praised "Troy: Fall of a City" for its more thoughtful, psychologically complicated interpretation of the Trojan War in sharp contrast to the 2004 film "Troy", which Hawksley derided as a "shallow flex-fest". Nonetheless, Hawksley criticized the characters' occasionally stilted dialogue. He concluded, ""Troy: Fall of a City" might just be a fresh, psychologically knotty take on one of the greatest tales of them all." Also on the same day, Camilla Long, reviewing for "The