Columbus Does Not Discover America

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I don't know. History fascinates me and the true story could be as good as whatever really happened.:love_heart:
What I was saying was I did see archeological excavations of "Troy" as I'm sure you have, and there were remains of several cities unearthed on the location. Thus emerged the theory that "Troy" wasn't really one place but several, or one place that was destroyed more than once and then rebuilt.

That's interesting about Alexandros and Paris. I didn't know that.

It is like a puzzle. It's the wheatfield - 10,000 pieces all in shades of yellow.

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Oh truth is often stranger than fiction by far, but its the unknown that fascinates the species.
Troy appears to have been the royal seat of a group of towns. The war would probably be better described as an on going, series of annual raids by he Mycenaeans over a period of several, possibly many years. Its culmination the fall of Troy itself.
I find it telling that there are records on the Linear B discs in Pylos and other Mycenaean cities listing large numbers of disassembled chariots in storage. Yet outside of the Iliad, we have no mention that I know of of any military use of them in Greece. Its mountains make it unsuitable to chariot warfare. I see them as being shipped unassembled to the Troad and set up for use upon landing, but that's just my idea. I have not been able to find any authoratative comment on it.

"The Wheatfield" sounds like a horrendous puzzle. I think I'll pass.

 

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Oh truth is often stranger than fiction by far, but its the unknown that fascinates the species.
Troy appears to have been the royal seat of a group of towns. The war would probably be better described as an on going, series of annual raids by he Mycenaeans over a period of several, possibly many years. Its culmination the fall of Troy itself.
I find it telling that there are records on the Linear B discs in Pylos and other Mycenaean cities listing large numbers of disassembled chariots in storage. Yet outside of the Iliad, we have no mention that I know of of any military use of them in Greece. Its mountains make it unsuitable to chariot warfare. I see them as being shipped unassembled to the Troad and set up for use upon landing, but that's just my idea. I have not been able to find any authoratative comment on it.

"The Wheatfield" sounds like a horrendous puzzle. I think I'll pass.

I like the idea that Troy was the seat of a group of smaller towns. This makes sense and would explain, perhaps the archeological findings there.

In every movie I've ever seen about the Trojan wars, they (the Greeks and Trojans rode chariots ). Movies are always so accurate - right? layful: I suppose they could be disassembled, transported, and reassembled though. Anywhere that a road was paved, you'd find a chariot. Plus the terrain of Troy ( Turkey ) was not as inhospitable to chariot use as that of Greece. I did see chariots depicted on Greek black figure and red figure amphorae so they must have existed for some kind of military use, otherwise they would not have been important enough to commemorate in art.