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"
Siege of Theodosia (c. 360 BC) to repel them through the use of Scythians to maintain his Greek troops disciplined and stable. Siege of Theodosia (c. 360 BC) The Siege of Theodosia in was the third and final siege by the Bosporan Kingdom under Leukon I against the city of Theodosia, a probable colony of Heraclea Pontica, who had aided the city in two previous sieges. In the first siege, Satyros I, the father of Leukon, besieged the city but lost his life there at the age of 81. After having been tricked by Tynnichus, Leukon retreated back to Panticapaeum. After his defeat, Leukon had to