1 posted on
04/07/2006 11:09:52 AM PDT by
blam
To: SunkenCiv
2 posted on
04/07/2006 11:10:27 AM PDT by
blam
To: blam
"But we'll have to wait for funding in order to start a dig" Ahhhh, in searh of the Golden Fleece...........
3 posted on
04/07/2006 11:13:43 AM PDT by
Red Badger
(I must not fear.Fear is the mind-killer.Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.....)
To: blam
I don't see any reason in the article to think that this was the original city...just because it's 33 hectares?
And VI to III cent BC would be too late for Aeneas' settlement...?
To: 24Karet; 3AngelaD; 4ConservativeJustices; A. Patriot; A.J.Armitage; abner; ABrit; ACelt; adam_az; ..
Thanks Blam. In the Aeneid, the epic poem recounting Aeneas's voyage from Troy to Italy, Virgil does not say exactly where the city was. But many scholars think it is buried under a town of the same name in Greece.
Interesting.
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5 posted on
04/07/2006 11:20:06 AM PDT by
SunkenCiv
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To: Claud
Magna cum murmurae montis!
6 posted on
04/07/2006 11:26:14 AM PDT by
Antoninus
(I don't vote for liberals regardless of their party affiliation.)
To: blam
Claude Lorraine, Aeneas's farewell to Dido in Carthage.
![](http://www.allartclassic.com/img/LOC010.jpg)
9 posted on
04/07/2006 11:45:48 AM PDT by
Cicero
(Marcus Tullius)
To: blam
"But many scholars think it is buried under a town of the same name in Greece."
Uh-oh - here come the EU family squabbles.
This may not be what they hope it to be, but something interesting may lay beneath. This could be their way to angle for funding.
To: blam
Will be interesting to hear of what the dig produces.
13 posted on
04/07/2006 6:29:49 PM PDT by
Dustbunny
(The only good terrorist is a dead terrorist)
To: blam
Ok, I may be very dense but why does that picture look like a rock but the caption says "Virgil's demi-god city 'found'"? Were Castor and Pollux turned into stone, immortalized by the gods... what's up with that huge stone?
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