What is the political significance of Trojan mythology for the European literary ideology?

In Troy where the East met the West since three thousand B. C. E. we speak of not just an economical but a cultural war. In this context, one of the problems that the European intellectuals are struggling with (in the context of the Iliad epic) is the attempt to put Helen in the center of all the problems. Kidnapping a woman becomes the key for a new interpretation in terms of sexuality. The main theme in Greek epics and tragedies is the transition from a matriarchal system to a patriarchal one. It is from this cultural axis that the intellectuals and literary people of the West continue their ideological journey. This chain of interpretations reaches its peak in literature in the nineteenth century. There is then hardly a work of art that does not deal with themes from Troy. In recent years, one of the most important authors in Europe, Christa Wolf reached new heights in modern literature with her Cassandra (1983), and Medea (1996). The endless reproduction of mythology in some sense leads Europeans to give an account of and judge themselves through mythology and this reproduction becomes a cultural key.