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To: montag813

I don’t think he did. The vengeance is really in the Iliad. The Odyssey is 10 years after that, being punished by the gods for what they did, and getting a chance to look back on it and wonder what it was worth and should they even have done it.

This wasn’t a conquest, it was a wipe out. They wiped Troy off the map, literally. And remember it is part of Homer’s story that the gods were not entirely pleased with any of it. They all had a hard time getting home. And didn’t get warm welcomes. The Odyssey is about paying the price of that vengeance, The Odyssey is about those seeking vengeance digging 2 holes.

And this was all thousands of years before Islam, so that’s a you problem.


113 posted on 07/19/2026 8:58:36 AM PDT by discostu (like a dog being shown a card trick)
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To: discostu

Good points, I think I stand corrected.


146 posted on 07/19/2026 10:05:29 AM PDT by montag813
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