Seven years later, Latacz, now professor emeritus of Greek at Basel (the chair once held by Friedrich Nietzsche) serves as the guiding spirit of a far less incendiary sequel to the earlier show. Korfmann’s views on the extent and importance of Late Bronze Age Troy-later championed by Latacz in a semipopular book that is also available in an English translation 2-were challenged by his Tübingen colleague in ancient history, Frank Kolb, who questioned whether Troy was as large or as significant an urban center as Korfmann had claimed, and the whole thing escalated into what a recent volume calls Der neue Streit um Troia.

1 It focused on the results of Korfmann’s excavations since the early 1980s, the history of Troy in its Anatolian context, and the implications of the new excavations for our understanding of Homer and the Trojan War. Troia–Traum und Wirklichkeit was organized by the distinguished Homerist Joachim Latacz, together with the most recent excavator of Bronze Age Troy, the late Manfred Korfmann, and others. In 2001, an exhibition about Troy presented in three German museums provoked a controversy of epic proportions. Homer: Der Mythos von Troia in Dichtung und Kunst, Antikenmuseum Basel und Sammlung Ludwig, edited by Joachim Latacz, Thierry Greub, Peter Blome, and Alfried Wieczorek.

Homer: Der Mythos von Troia in Dichtung und Kunst, Antikenmuseum Basel und Sammlung Ludwig, 16 March–17 August 2008, conception and organization by Peter Blome, Suzanne Greub, and Alfried Wieczorek scholarly direction by Joachim Latacz.

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