 It indicates that Luwian was known at Troy, which is not surprising since it was a lingua franca of the Hittite empire, of which Troy was probably in some form of dependency.Another sphere of research concerns a handful of Trojan personal names mentioned in the "Iliad".Among sixteen recorded names of Priam's relatives, at least nine (including "Anchises" and "Aeneas") are not Greek and may be traced to "pre-Greek Asia Minor".