Were the Greeks and Trojans superstitious? Justify your answer.
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Historically, there has been a lot more Greeks than just those living in Greece. Most of what we know as Greek civilization arose on the coast of what is currently Turkey. Great cities like Sardis, Ephesus and Miletus were built here as Greek colonies in the Archaic Age and lived alongside the kingdoms of Lydia and Caria until they were conquered by Cyrus the Great and his Achaeminid Empire. There were also Greeks in Sicily, called the "Western Greeks". Syracuse was a Greek city, along with Naples (originally called Neapolis, meaning New City) and it's assumed that most of Roman culture was influenced heavily by these Greek settlements.
Most of the time, Greeks didn't think of themselves as Greeks. They mainly identified with their polis (city-state). But their language and religion united them anyway, when they started meeting people of other ethnicities such as the Persians and Medes (who we're probably Zoroastrians) or Phoenicians (the guys who founded Carthage as a colony. A lot of Greek immigrants also lived here).
The Greeks immigrated a lot during certain times. There is even evidence of people being forced to leave their homes and sail out to find new islands. There are people who were appointed to stand at the beach and keep guard. They were instructed to throw stones and anyone who tried to return. Most colonists still identified with their former city, but it also gave them a "panhellenic" perspective, so to speak. They thought of themselves more as Greeks than Persian or Phoenician, but certainly still identified with either:
1) Their city state. An Athenians and Spartans certainly thought of themselves as different from Argives or Thebans, and for good reasons. Their cultures were very different.
2) Their ethnicity. There were two different Greek ethnicities that most of the city states identified as, which often caused political conflict. Most were either considered Ionian or Dorian. Most of the Greek mainland was Dorian, including Sparta, while Attica, the islands in the Aegean and Ionian seas and the Asian coast were considered Ionian. (Note that these races were more of a political concept than biological. You couldn't really see the differences except for their apparently different accents and cultures)
3) Their particular region of Greece. This came later when colonists started identifying as independent form their original city and the first large "leagues" were formed to combat the Persian Empire. Peleponnesians were more likely to think of themselves as such. The same thing goes for Attica or Epirus. Things got more regional when these alliances were made, especially during the Persian and following Peloponnesian War.
So yes, the Greeks probably saw the Trojans (a fictional representation for he Eastern Greeks) as their countrymen, but not their city-men. They had a lot in common. Language, culture, religion, especially during the Mycenaean Age, before the arrival of the Dorian invasion, but more importantly: the Trojans probably thought of themselves as Greeks, if the city ever existed