 Philologist Joachim Latacz identifies the "Achaioi" of the "Illiad" with the inhabitants of Ahhiyawa.He posits that in all probability the "Iliad" preserved through oral hexameters the memory of one or more acts of aggression perpetrated by the Ahhiyawans against Wilusa in the thirteenth century B.C.The more that is known about Bronze Age history, the clearer it becomes that it is not a yes-or-no question but one of educated assessment of "how much" historical knowledge is present in Homer, and whether it represents a retrospective memory of Dark Age Greece, as Finley concludes, or of Mycenaean Greece, which is the dominant view of "A Companion to Homer", A.J.B.