Did Illyrians fight in Troy?

by akraja

I am currently reading a book 'The War Of Troy: A Pelasgian and Illyrian War'. This book implicitly states that Illyrians, anscetoral tribe of the Albanian people, should be considered as warrior of Troy just as much as the ancient Greeks. In summary the author states that the Phrygians (Trojans) descended from a tribe called the Encheleian Brigas, that lived in what is now Albania, emigrated to Troy.

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I just looked this book up, and it's garbage. It's self-published by an avowed Albanian ultra-nationalist whose other claims include a comment last year on Albanian television that there is no Greek ethnicity and that the Greek War of Independence was fought by Albanians, not Greeks. The blurb on Google Books is unsurprisingly without a rigid scholarly basis (and is poorly written in English). Kocaqi does not realize, for example, or does not care that Dictys of Crete's (whose name she spells wrong) "Ephemeris" and Dares of Phrygia's "de excidio Troiae" are not historical texts, as she claims they are, but are late antique novels written with a literary frame. It's exactly analogous to saying that A Princess of Mars is a historical account of John Carter's unification of Barsoom because Edgar Rice Burroughs says at the beginning of it that he's compiling the novel from John Carter's own notes. No such person as Dictys, Dares, or John Carter ever existed. The linguistic "argument" given in her Google Books blurb is fantasy. And the polemic is obvious.

I wouldn't use this garbage as a paperweight