Trojan War

What if the Trojans win the war with the Greeks? What could come out of that? Maybe no Rome. Or no great Greek legends for the Greeks to fall back on to help them beat the Persians. Or Maybe Alexander the Great has no heroes to worship? Maybe a huge Trojan empire?
 
What if the Trojans win the war with the Greeks? What could come out of that? Maybe no Rome. Or no great Greek legends for the Greeks to fall back on to help them beat the Persians. Or Maybe Alexander the Great has no heroes to worship? Maybe a huge Trojan empire?

Its difficult to surmise what the Trojans were like. Perhaps they were a cultural satellite of the Hittite Empire, or perhaps they formed part of the origins of what the Egyptians referred to as the "Sea Peoples" whom assaulted Egypt and the Levantine Canaanite statelets during the Second Millenium BCE. One splinter-group from the incursions of the Sea Peoples would have been the Philistines.
 
Isnt the Trojan War 20% history and 80% myth? I mean, Im sure theres a bit of historical background, but the whole Illiad thing is definately a legend.
We are talking about that war here, right?
 
Like Jimbrock said we don't know that much about what happened to begin with, but there's a decent chance not much would change. The Trojan War was essentially a loss for the Greeks in that they had lost so many men and basically left their country without any defenses for the 10 years. The only difference there would be the Troy surviving.
At some point, barring weird chaos-theory butterflies Tory would get nailed by the Persians eventually like every other power in Anatolia. And with a little luck the Persian-Greek wars would probably have turned out much the same way. Maybe the wars start start later because there are fewer Greek Anatolian colonies, since that would have been Tory's sphere of influence, which means that Athens doesn't help the Greek colonies which doesn't incur Persia's wrath, but eventually the Persians will come for Greece anyway.
Mythology-wise the Greeks have enough material to simply flesh out the era before the Trojan War (the era of Oedipus and the Seven Against Thebes) into any equally epic tale.
Finally in regards to Rome, there's no conclusive evidence that Aeneas actually existed to found Latium. However considering the penchant the Greeks and Phoenicians had for founding colonies in the Western Mediterranean, it's quite possible the Trojans would have founded an analogous colony anyway.
 
Isnt the Trojan War 20% history and 80% myth? I mean, Im sure theres a bit of historical background, but the whole Illiad thing is definately a legend.
We are talking about that war here, right?
Exactly. You can't exactly draw any conclusions or even theories when all you know is that there was a city called Ilium or something like that in the spot legends said it was, and that there was a war there at roughly the time the legends say. That's it. That's as far as our knowledge goes.
 
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