▲ 26 ▼ Today 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… (lemmy.today) submitted 3 months ago by sanitation@lemmy.today to c/interestingasfuck@lemmy.world 17 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 6 points 3 months ago (3 children) Do you live in the pre-Schliemann era? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historicity_of_the_Iliad permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 3 child comments replies: [–] TeaWithDani@lemmy.world -3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children) 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. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Bourff@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago (1 child) https://www.britannica.com/place/Hisarlik "...Hisarlık has been largely acknowledged by scholars as the site of historical Troy [...]". permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] TeaWithDani@lemmy.world -3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) 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. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] TeaWithDani@lemmy.world -3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children) 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. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Bourff@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago (1 child) https://www.britannica.com/place/Hisarlik "...Hisarlık has been largely acknowledged by scholars as the site of historical Troy [...]". permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] TeaWithDani@lemmy.world -3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) 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. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Bourff@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago (1 child) https://www.britannica.com/place/Hisarlik "...Hisarlık has been largely acknowledged by scholars as the site of historical Troy [...]". permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] TeaWithDani@lemmy.world -3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) 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. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] TeaWithDani@lemmy.world -3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) 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. permalink fedilink source parent
