The Apple of Discord

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Originally Posted by Phantasm

From a historical point of view, the war was probably over Trojan taxation of ships entering and leaving the Dardenalles/Hellespont in order to pass through to the Black Sea for the amber that was mined there.

Sure, but "some period of unpleasantness between a constantly shifting network of Mycenaean and Ioian city-states" describes a war that is nothing like the Iliad, except metaphorically. It certainly isn't "the Iliad but atheist" the way Troy was supposed to be.