sanitation@lemmy.today to interestingasfuck@lemmy.world · 28 days agoToday I learned that, unlike Hollywood depicts it, ancient Troy was not part of the european/hellenic cultural sphere. It was a purely Anatolian indigenous polity, similar to the Hittites (In fact, T…imagemessage-square22linkfedilinkarrow-up129arrow-down13file-text
arrow-up126arrow-down1imageToday I learned that, unlike Hollywood depicts it, ancient Troy was not part of the european/hellenic cultural sphere. It was a purely Anatolian indigenous polity, similar to the Hittites (In fact, T…sanitation@lemmy.today to interestingasfuck@lemmy.world · 28 days agomessage-square22linkfedilinkfile-text
minus-squareacargitz@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up7·28 days agoDo you live in the pre-Schliemann era? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historicity_of_the_Iliad
minus-squareTeaWithDani@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down4·edit-228 days agoNope, its not because Schliemann was a Homer otaku that his discoveries were what he said they were. Guy had a worldview and made the evidence fit it. There are many cities that were looted and rebuilt several times in the ancient world while having large walls.
minus-squareBourff@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·28 days agohttps://www.britannica.com/place/Hisarlik “…Hisarlık has been largely acknowledged by scholars as the site of historical Troy […]”.
minus-squareTeaWithDani@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down4·edit-228 days agoFeel free to read those scholars if you want to be unimpressed. I am unconvinced by the faint evidence. I’ll grant them it’s more historical than Atlantis.
Do you live in the pre-Schliemann era?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historicity_of_the_Iliad
Nope, its not because Schliemann was a Homer otaku that his discoveries were what he said they were. Guy had a worldview and made the evidence fit it.
There are many cities that were looted and rebuilt several times in the ancient world while having large walls.
https://www.britannica.com/place/Hisarlik
“…Hisarlık has been largely acknowledged by scholars as the site of historical Troy […]”.
Feel free to read those scholars if you want to be unimpressed. I am unconvinced by the faint evidence.
I’ll grant them it’s more historical than Atlantis.