Episode 18 The Fall of Troy Myth, Memory, and the Echo of War

Few stories from the ancient world have echoed as loudly as the fall of Troy. Immortalized in Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey, it is a tale of love and betrayal, gods and men, valor and destruction. Yet beneath the poetry and myth, archaeologists have uncovered traces of a real city—one that burned, rebuilt, and burned again, leaving behind questions as enduring as the legend itself.