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 Colossus and Other Poems be judged equally seriously... There is an admirable no-nonsense air about this; the language is bare but vivid and precise, with a concentration that implies a good deal of disturbance with proportionately little fuss." Seamus Heaney said of "The Colossus": "On every page, a poet is serving notice that she has earned her credentials and knows her trade." The Colossus and Other Poems The Colossus and Other Poems is a poetry collection by American poet Sylvia Plath, first published by Heinemann, in 1960. It is the only volume of poetry by Plath that was published before her death in 1963.