Troy ancientgreek troia was a city situated in what is known from classical sources as asia minor now northwest anatolia in modern turkey located south of the southwest end of the dardanelleshellespont and northwest of mount ida at hisarlk it is the setting of thetrojan war described in the greek epic cycle and especially in the iliad one of the two epic poems attributed to homer metrical evidence from the iliad and the odyssey seems to show that the name ilion formerly began with a d