The historian who claims that the Trojan War took place in England, Achilles was Celtic and the Mediterranean, ocean
Iman Wilkens, in his book "Where Troy once was", argues that, contrary to what we have believed until now, the Trojan War did not take place in Asia Minor, but in England.
Troy, says Wilkens, was in the hills of Gog Magog in Cambridge, England. In 1,200 BC, the Celts who
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| Hills of Gog Magok. |
The real Troy lived there, were attacked by Celts of mainland Europe, because they wanted to gain control of the tin mines, which were located in the area.
According to the book, the people who settled in Greece were Celts. They brought with them their traditions and stories, which became the basis for Homer's epic poems, the Iliad and the Odyssey. He says, in other words, that they were stories from Western Europe, which were transmitted orally and translated into Greek by Homer, in 750 BC.
The Greeks, who had forgotten the roots of the songs, considered that the war had taken place in the Mediterranean region.
"Many of the Greek words used by Homer have their roots in European languages, mainly Dutch, but also in English, German and French," he wrote in his book.
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| The mountain of Agios Michael. Skyla and Charybdis were there |
The sea that Odysseus traveled was not the Mediterranean, but the Atlantic Ocean. Wilkens has also found the location of Scylla and Charybdis, that is, St. Michael's Mountain, off the coast of Cornwall, in the south-west of England.
To prove his theory, he presents the similarities between the names of the rivers mentioned in the Iliad, with corresponding rivers in England. The Kam, the Small and the Big Ouz are the respective rivers of Scamandros, Simoedas and Satnioes. The Thames, the great river of London, corresponds to the Temes region of Italy, with which the Achaeans traded copper. Ithaca, the homeland of Odysseus, was probably Cadiz in
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| Cadiz The real homeland of Odysseus, instead of Ithaca |
Andalusia of Spain. "Agamemnon says that the journey from Argos to Ithaca took him a month. This distance in Greece is so small that he would normally cover it within 24 hours ".
Wilkens states that the Belgian lawyer Theophilos Kegio, who wrote a book in 1878 describing the same theory, had the same doubts.
Modern historians, for the most part, have been indifferent to Wilkins' book. Some have commented that it is well written and could be worthy of historical books, but that it could hardly be taken seriously