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...wouldn't any texts have a hard time surviving the Greek dark ages? I mean if the dark ages was anything like Europe's dark ages then I doubt it.

Not sure, but I looked up both Homer and the Greek Dark Ages on wiki. The Greek Dark Ages were roughly from 1150 BC to 800 BC, and Homer is reputed to have lived around about the 8th century BC. However, whether Homer was a real individual is open to dispute; his poems (the Iliad and the Odyssey) are now widely regarded as the culmination of a long tradition of orally composed poetry, but the way in which they reached their final written form, and the role that any individual poet or poets played in this process is also disputed.

The rest of this post is a simple copy-and-paste on the Trojan war from wiki. I'm not an expert on the subject, but I thought you might find this interesting, so I'm copying-and-pasting without making comments or addendums:

'Whether there is any historical reality behind the Trojan War is also an open question. Many scholars believe that there is a historical core to the tale, though this may simply mean that the Homeric stories are a fusion of various tales of sieges and expeditions by Mycenaean Greeks during the Bronze Age. Those who believe that the stories of the Trojan War derive from a specific historical conflict usually date it to the 12th or 11th centuries BC, often preferring the dates given by Eratosthenes, 1194-1184 BC, which roughly corresponds with archaeological evidence of a catastrophic burning of Troy VIIa.' (from the Trojan War wiki. Following are some excerpts on what Troy VIIa is -Ed.)

'Troy VII, in the mound at Hisarlik, is an archaeological layer of Troy spanning late Hittite Empire to Neo-Hittite times (ca. 1300 to 950 BC). It was a walled city with towers reaching a height of nine meters; the foundations of one of its bastions measure 18 meters by 18 meters. Manfred Korfmann, who excavated the site in the 1980s, estimated the area of Troy VII at 200,000 square metres or more and put its population at five to ten thousand inhabitants, which makes it "by the standards of its day a large and important city"...

The city of the archaeological layer known as Troy VIIa, which has been dated on the basis of pottery styles to the mid- to late-13th century BC, lasted for about a century, with a destruction layer at ca. 1190 BC. It is the most often-cited candidate for the Troy of Homer and is believed to correspond to Assuwan Wilusa known from Hittite sources dating to the period of roughly 1300-1250 BC.

These dates correspond closely to the mythical chronology of Greece as calculated by classical authors, placing the construction of the walls of Troy by Poseidon, Apollo and Aeacus at 1282 BC and the sack of Troy by the Greeks at 1183 BC.

Troy VIIa appears to have been destroyed by a war, perhaps the source of the legendary Trojan War, and there are traces of a fire. Partial human remains were found in houses and in the streets, and near the north-western ramparts a human skeleton with skull injuries and a broken jawbone. Three bronze arrowheads were found, two in the fort and one in the city. However, only small portions of the city have been excavated, and the finds are too scarce to clearly favour destruction by war over a natural disaster.

Until excavations in 1988, one of the problems with this identification was that Troy VII seemed to be a hill-top fort, and not a city of the size described by Homer. The 1988 discovery of a small section of a possible city circuit wall enclosing a much larger area suggests a city "at least ten times larger than earlier excavators - and thus the broader public - had supposed".' (from the wiki on Troy VII -Ed.)

Hope you find this helpful. :-)