After reading Finley and a few other fine historians, I've come up with the story of how the Iliad was perceived through the ages, from the Bronze Age collapse to modern archeology.

Enjoy: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2599972053

If you're into Ancient History, let me know your thoughts about it.

I'm working on it ;)

Thank you!

Great job!!!

Good effort @Scylla#6669 Both prose were an interesting read, thanks.

Legend has it, that another Trojan founded Padua in Veneto Italy 

https://www.turismopadova.it/en/antenor-history-or-legend/

An accent literary tradition that dates back as far as Homer tells us that, in their war against the Greeks, the Trojans were assisted by the Veneti. According to the ancient authors, these Veneti were a people originating in far-off Paphlagonia, a region of Anatolia on the Black Sea coast.

They were led in the Trojan War by their chief Pilemene, who would die in combat. Thus, when Troy fell the Veneti took another military leader, the Trojan Antenor. And it would be under his guidance that they, like so many of those defeated in the war, went into exile, wandering the seas in search of a new place to settle.

Thanks for sharing. I don't know much about the history of Veneto but this sounds a lot like a piece of propaganda similar to Aeneas' so-called foundation of Rome. There doesn't seem to be any archeological evidence to support this legend. It also doesn't make much sense for Trojan refugees to decide to flee westward, towards and around Greece...

I tend to agree with you............I cannot see any Pala people speaking Palaic language moving to North East Italy ...................besides the Venetic came from modern Czechia like the Umbri did, who  previous heading for eastern Adriatic Italy circa 2200BC.....................the Venetic tribe subdued, absorbed and pushed the remaining indigenous tribes , the Euganei  , numerous in numbers with 34 towns

The Euganei (fr. Lat. Euganei, Euganeorum; cf. Gr. εὐγενής (eugenēs) 'well-born') were a semi-mythical Proto-Italic ethnic group that dwelt in an area stretching from the Adriatic Sea to the Rhaetian Alps. Subsequently, they were driven by the Adriatic Veneti to an area between the river Adige and Lake Como, where they remained until the early Roman Empire.[1]

They may have been a Pre-Indo-European people, ethnically related to the Ingauni, as suggested by the similarity of the names. According to Pliny the Elder the Stoni people from Trentino were of the same stock as the Euganei.

Cato the Elder, in the lost book of Origines, counted among the major tribes of the Euganeans the Triumplini of Val Trompia and the Camunni of Val Camonica.[2]

According to Livy, they were defeated by the Adriatic Veneti and the Trojans. Their descendants settled west of the Athesis (Adige) river, around the lakes Sebinus, Edrus and Benacus, where they occupied 34 towns, which were admitted by Augustus to the rights of Latin municipalities.