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"
The Wanderings of Oisin The Wanderings of Oisin The Wanderings of Oisin ( ) is an epic poem published by William Butler Yeats in 1889 in the book "The Wanderings of Oisin and Other Poems". It was his first publication outside magazines, and immediately won him a reputation as a significant poet. This narrative poem takes the form of a dialogue between the aged Irish hero Oisín and St. Patrick, the man traditionally responsible for converting Ireland to Christianity. Most of the poem is spoken by Oisin, relating his three-hundred year sojourn in the isles of Faerie. Oisin has not been a popular poem