TFA is correct with about 400 years later. The current form of the Iliad is estimated to have been composed around the middle of the 8th century BC. The destr

TFA is correct with about 400 years later. The current form of the Iliad is estimated to have been composed around the middle of the 8th century BC. The destruction of Troy is estimated to have happened around the beginning of the 12th century BC. Some passages of the Iliad may refer to stories inherited from earlier times of the Mycenaean Greeks, e.g. from the 14th century BC. It is unlikely that anything in the Iliad can be traced to specific events that have happened 800 years earlier, i.e. in the 16th century BC, even if some of the kinds of poetic formulae employed by Homer are much older and they may have been inherited from the common Proto-Indo-European language.