Troy
About Troy
Troy or Ilion was an ancient city located in present-day Çanakkale, Turkey. It is best known as the setting for the Greek myth of the Trojan War. The archaeological site is open to the public as a tourist destination, and was added to the UNESCO World Heritage list in 1998.
On the show — 10 mentions total
There was a theory that the British royals were descended from Brutus, and it all dated back to the fall of Troy. There was an earlier, more mythological Brutus, descended from the Trojans when they left after the fall of the city, and that through Brutus, that's how it descended to the English monarchs in the 15th and 16th centuries.
from 239: No Such Thing As The Queen Maaaaaaary, 2018-10-19 at 00:19:38 · read transcript
Other times Troy came up
The story of what Homer's writing about the Iliad and the Odyssey are actually two, I think of a series of eight stories of the whole Trojan Wars and the only those two survived in full, but I think there are six more in fragments and the Trojan Wars really happened. Then obviously they start getting crazy gods involved, which starts to become a bit fictional. Yeah, Nestor's Palace existed in Nestor's bathtub existed. There are ruins of Troy that they discovered, aren't they? They know that it was a real place. Yes.
140: No Such Thing As Books For Pirate-Children, 2016-11-19 · listen
Prince Patches, O'Huliham, the third of Wilshire. Dog. Dog? Yeah. dogs. I wouldn't give you any genitals. In the 15th century, the Duke of York, this is what he spent his time doing in those days, he wrote a list of 1,100 names that he considered appropriate for hunting dogs to advise people what to call their dogs. There were things like Troy. Genitals. Genital, yeah. Nose-wise. Nameless, perennie. Clench.
No Such Thing As Utah Fried Chicken, 2015-11-27 · listen
The story of what Homer's writing about that Iliad and the Odyssey are actually two, I think, of a series of eight stories of the whole Trojan wars, and only those two survived in full, but I think there are six more in fragments, and the Trojan Wars really happened, but then, obviously, they start getting crazy gods involved, which starts to become a bit fictional. Yeah, Nestor's Palace existed, and Nestor's Barthop existed. There are ruins of Troy that they've discovered, aren't they? They know that it was a real place.
No Such Thing As Books For Pirate-Children, 2016-11-18 · listen
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