Of course, it's difficult to be certain that these ruins are the true remains of ancient Troy, and scholars still dispute whether the Trojan War as described by Homer ever happened.
As more were found, the naming convention stuck; asteroids ahead of Jupiter were named after Greek figures in the Trojan war, and those behind Jupiter were named for Trojans, and now we just call them all Trojan asteroids.
Atreus' sons Agamemnon and Menelaus are best known from the Trojan War — the 10-year siege to bring back Menelaus' wife Helen, who had been abducted by Paris of Troy.
Almost every one of these Greek colonies could brag about being founded by a hero, or founded by the son of the gods, or at least founded by a big time hero from the Trojan War.
In fact, he remembers reading a children's book about the Trojan War and deciding the Greeks were a bunch of frauds with their tricky horses and their wife-stealing.
It is this passage that has led to Helen of Troy being referred to as the face that launched a thousand ships, because her abduction caused the Greeks to sail to Troy to fight the Trojan War.
So if Philip II really gets this idea for pike phalanxes from reading about the Achaeans in the Trojan War, using block formations of troops with very long spears, that's wild to me.
Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! | Greek Mythology & the Ancient Mediterranean
And it's Laodamia who later catches the eye of none other than Zeus and becomes the mother of Sarpedon, one of the most famous warriors of the Trojan War.
It was so among the ancient Celtes, among the ancient Scandinavians, and, as we may learn from Homer, among the ancient Greeks, in the times preceding the Trojan war.