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.
Greek tragedy, particularly with its obsessive focus on the aftermath of the Trojan War, especially in the delightful excessiveness of Euripides, is largely about combat veterans.
The University of Southern California, where I studied for my PhD, has as its mascot the Trojans, referring back to the Trojan War back in Ancient Greece.
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.
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.