Who was Homer really? Raoul Schrott, while working on his translation of the Iliad, has stumbled upon a sensation: the setting of the Iliad is not Troy, but Cilicia. He presents this thesis in his extensive study "Homer's Homeland," backed by a wealth of data, facts, evidence, and clues – and for the first time in over 2500 years, not only is the contemporary background of the Iliad reconstructed, but the person of Homer and his origins are also made recognizable. Schrott has researched the Cilician backgrounds for the gods and heroic figures of the Iliad, traveled through the Cilician landscape, rediscovered the real history that Homer projected onto the ancient Trojan material, and identified the historical prototypes for immortal figures like Paris, Helen, Hector, Achilles, and Priam.