All the texts described (Herodotus, Thucydides, etc) in your link only seem to discuss Troy in the context of the Trojan war which was itself known to the Greeks via the work of the myths passed down. So it seems strange to say that we knew Troy existed, but we doubted that the Trojan war was real.
Thucydides likewise mentions Mycenae—and he argued in favour of taking the poets’ words seriously about the past importance of Mycenae, though at his time no physical evidence of such remained (the location was by Thucydides’s time become mere insignificant villages).
which was itself known to the Greeks via the work of the myths passed down
Around the time of the Ancient Greeks and Romans, do you distinguish “myth” and “history” at all? It seems to me you’re calling everything without physical evidence a “myth”.
All the texts described (Herodotus, Thucydides, etc) in your link only seem to discuss Troy in the context of the Trojan war which was itself known to the Greeks via the work of the myths passed down. So it seems strange to say that we knew Troy existed, but we doubted that the Trojan war was real.
Thucydides likewise mentions Mycenae—and he argued in favour of taking the poets’ words seriously about the past importance of Mycenae, though at his time no physical evidence of such remained (the location was by Thucydides’s time become mere insignificant villages).
Around the time of the Ancient Greeks and Romans, do you distinguish “myth” and “history” at all? It seems to me you’re calling everything without physical evidence a “myth”.