Trojan Culture ID

The Trojan culture evokes the legendary city of Troy and the Greek-speaking world of the Anatolian coast, immortalised in the epic poetry of the Trojan War. It belongs to the wider Hellenic tradition of the eastern Mediterranean.

Set on the approaches to the straits between the Aegean and the Black Sea, the region was a meeting point of peoples and a prize for its command of trade and passage between worlds.

Its culture shared in the language, religion, and heroic traditions of the Greek world, remembered above all through the stories of gods, heroes, and the great siege that became a foundation of Western literature.

Steeped in legend and set at the crossroads of Europe and Asia, the Trojan culture occupies a storied place at the edge of the Hellenic world.