Kind of. Homer is combining two separate events into one.
You have the LBA Mycenaean conquest of Anatolia establishing a foothold which correlates to the catalogue of ships (~1400-1350 BCE).
And then you have the sea peoples conquest of Troy taking it back from the Hittites in the early Iron Age (~1200-1180 BCE).
In between that time you have letters from the Hittites pursuing a refugee asking the Ahhiyawa to hand him over from Troy (so presumably the pre-Greeks already had influence over Troy), then later referring to their own vassal in charge of the city.
The sea peoples are primarily Anatolian and from the Aegean isles. They don't seem to be from the Greek mainland, whereas the Mycenaeans were.
So you have a predominantly Greek story of the initial LBA conquest, and then a quite mixed group conquering their own homelands which happens in the early Iron Age.
Homer rolls them up into one story of a predominantly Greek conquest of Troy, and as a result the Greeks had an entirely broken picture of the LBA/EIA period, from Perseus being his own grandfather based on the sources to thinking the Argonauts (a sea people story) happened before the Mycenaean catalogue of ships when it was the other way around.
You can even match details in both parts of the story to independent events recorded in Egypt during each of the respective periods.
You have the LBA Mycenaean conquest of Anatolia establishing a foothold which correlates to the catalogue of ships (~1400-1350 BCE).
And then you have the sea peoples conquest of Troy taking it back from the Hittites in the early Iron Age (~1200-1180 BCE).
In between that time you have letters from the Hittites pursuing a refugee asking the Ahhiyawa to hand him over from Troy (so presumably the pre-Greeks already had influence over Troy), then later referring to their own vassal in charge of the city.
The sea peoples are primarily Anatolian and from the Aegean isles. They don't seem to be from the Greek mainland, whereas the Mycenaeans were.
So you have a predominantly Greek story of the initial LBA conquest, and then a quite mixed group conquering their own homelands which happens in the early Iron Age.
Homer rolls them up into one story of a predominantly Greek conquest of Troy, and as a result the Greeks had an entirely broken picture of the LBA/EIA period, from Perseus being his own grandfather based on the sources to thinking the Argonauts (a sea people story) happened before the Mycenaean catalogue of ships when it was the other way around.
You can even match details in both parts of the story to independent events recorded in Egypt during each of the respective periods.