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To: SunkenCiv

It’s not sandy Pylos of Homeric fame, is it?


7 posted on 05/15/2009 7:09:16 AM PDT by Unam Sanctam
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To: Unam Sanctam

Nope. Hey, I think I went to school with Sandy Pylos... maybe not though... after the end of that kingdom, Mycenaean Pylos was never rebuilt. Much later the Athenians defeated the Spartans at the island there, and in modern times Blegen found the other large archive (after Knossos) of Linear B inscribed tablets.


10 posted on 05/15/2009 7:16:11 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/____________________ Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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To: Unam Sanctam; SunkenCiv

“It’s not sandy Pylos of Homeric fame, is it?”

Nope. Pylos is on the west coast of the most western peninsula of the Peloponnesus. Its a particularly beautiful place. King Nestor’s palace, high on a mountain overlooking the town and the Ionian Sea, has been excavated and is really something worth seeing.


13 posted on 05/15/2009 8:01:11 AM PDT by Kolokotronis (Christ is Risen, and you, o death, are annihilated!)
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