Why are the people of Troy called Trojans?

[egfroth]

I forget the name of the Greek who described the known world and subdivided it according to five races : Greeks, Persians, Libyans, Egyptians, and Barbarians. Or maybe the Persians were covered by "Barbarians." Hmm...someone will let us know momentarily I'm sure :wink:



Theo

Yep - the word "barbarian" came from the Greek attempt to reproduce what they thought was the "ba-ba-ba" sound of the Persian language. So the Persians were the people who said "ba-ba-ba", or "barbarians".

That's what my Greek teacher taught me, anyhow.