Troy in Cambridge

http://www.troy-in-england.co.uk/p0.htm

I especially enjoyed the masses of comparative place-name evidence which is (hog)Wash. Also amusing is the superb level of inconsistency - strict reliance on Homer's numbers followed by total denial about similar issues as they raise inconvenient arguments.

This is the peril of ambitions such as this - trying to back up something inherently implausible by reference to irrelevancies. Why on earth would the names stay the same if the whole myth has been reterritorialized?

( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deterritorialization )

The underlying arguments about migration, folk-memory and the implications thereof are very interesting, though. I can imagine a despot harnessing a folk-tale and changing some of the place-names to suit political purposes.