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u/Fatalaros 9d ago
Πόλη* and it would be "to the city"
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u/-idkausername- 8d ago
No there is evidence it might have been 'in the city' (στην πολι)
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u/Fatalaros 8d ago
It's either Πόλη (modern) or Πόλιν (which is the accusative of Πόλις, in use back then). The phrase "είς την Πόλιν" means "to the City". In the city would have been "έν τῇ Πόλει".
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u/Vin4251 8d ago
In modern Greek, στην πόλη means “in the city” even though it descends from εις την πολιν … since the modern language was spoken colloquially before it became the literary standard, it’s possible the phrase had the modern meaning from the start, or at least it was ambiguous
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u/SourceCodeAvailable 9d ago
The land of the Hittites
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u/Dominarion 9d ago
That's a fuzzy one. That's farther north than what the Hittites' reach in the region that we know of. But there are a lot of tablets that haven't been read yet, and references to places we're not sure about.
There's a growing consensus that Wilusa was Troy and the site of Byzantium was quite near.
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u/TheSuperBunny 9d ago
Wilusa is most likely Ilion, Taruisa is most likely Troia
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u/Dominarion 9d ago
Ilion was one of the names of Troy
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u/Cactus-Pete- 9d ago
Ya, hence the Illiad being named as such. Not to mention, it's pretty well established in the field that Wilusa is the most likely candidate.
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u/-idkausername- 8d ago
Yeah in the field of classics pretty much everyone agrees. Makes even more sense if you consider that Ιλιον originally had a digamma (Fιλιον, pronounced as Wilion)
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