entity · trad_trojan_war
Trojan War Tradition
A mythic or literary tradition represented separately from proposed historical referents.
Review and provenance
Specialist reviewer: not recorded. Review date: not recorded.
Dataset workflow: not recorded. This is separate from specialist review.
Recorded dataset maintenance date: 2026-08-11.
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Properties and assignments
A label’s definition and the evidence for assigning it here are separate.
Cultural-Memory Hypothesis
A scholarly proposal that later tradition preserves transformed memory of an earlier event, institution, place, or social experience.
Why does this record have this property?
Some elements may preserve transformed memories of Late Bronze Age western Anatolian geopolitics, while the tradition also contains later layers.
- The Ahhiyawa Texts
supports assignment - The Aegean from Bronze Age to Iron Age: Continuity and Change between the Twelfth and Eighth Centuries BC
supports assignment
Evidence and sources
- supports · supports entity record
The Ahhiyawa Texts — Gary Beckman, Trevor Bryce, Eric H. Cline (2011)Supports the existence, description, classification, or historical context of Trojan War Tradition.
- supports · supports entity record
Horses, Ships, and Earthquakes — Lauren Murphy (2017)Supports the existence, description, classification, or historical context of Trojan War Tradition.