I always thought Troy was in present day Turkey, but hey, what do I know? Achilles probably really was an African. (Sarcasm off.)
Five thousand years ago, you would have found it in Anatolia, around the SW side of Turkey. I don’t have a problem in making Achilles some Congo guy (it’s pretty silly but fine). But why stop there? Why can’t Odysseus be French? Why can’t Helena be Latino?
I’d just like for kids to pick up Homer’s story (the Iliad), even as the comic book version, and get the jest of the war and consequences over personal decisions having to be made.
Well, Menelaus and Helen, on their way back from TROY, did end up in Libya for a while. He was NOT killed at Troy like the latest movie version showed.