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That is so interesting, to be able to say, my grandfather (well, great
great great or somthing) fought at Troy.

Eratosthenes (c275-194 [bc]), head of the great
library of Alexandria some decades after Manetho, then joined in
the antiquity game of behalf of Greece. He studied the works of
Homer, Manetho, and other early Greek historians, and derived a
date for the Trojan War of c1193-1183. This he did by identifying
17 Spartan kings who reigned in succession from the return of the
Heraclidae to Thermopylae. He then assumed that three generations
lasted 100 or 120 years, and arrived at a total of 622 years for
their combined reigns. This early date was strongly disputed at
the time by others, including some Greek ruling families who could
trace their genealogies back to ancestors who had fought at Troy.
They said this date was over 300 years too early, and that the war
had ended not more than three generations before the start of the
first Olympic Games in 776.