The unidentified fellow in shaft grave V was about 300 years too early to be Agamemnon, but there's no sign of the fortress changing hands, so they probably were related.
Posted on 02/07/2003 9:52:05 PM PST by TigerLikesRooster
You are right that the guy who wore it was likely a relative of Agamemnon.
Yes, it is quite a story. He was very young and not a soldier, yet led 10,000 through very dangerous land under the nose of the enemy to safety when they had pretty much given themselves up as lost.
The unidentified fellow in shaft grave V was about 300 years too early to be Agamemnon, but there's no sign of the fortress changing hands, so they probably were related.
And he wrote the oldest surviving work on horsemanship! Good guy!
Geologists investigate Trojan battlefield - condoms everywhere!
That's right. How to avoid getting a bad deal on a horse. That's the kind of philosophy we like. Do all horse owners read Xenophon?
BTW, most of his advice is still extremely current! We're still doing it his way, by and large (but I like the innovation of stirrups very much).
Interesting, thanks for the post.
I am sure this will be spun as more Global Warming.
Most, maybe all, of the old Cinque Ports in England are miles from the sea now, for the same reason. And they began to silt up in the 14th century, so aerosol cans and automobiles were NOT implicated. (Bet some eco-nut will blame it on sea-coal fires, though.)
I will never forget him correcting me in class. I described Alcibiades as not having a lot of "character". Dr. Agnew said "Oh no, he had lots of character, just perhaps not good character."
I belonged to the Geography club and we invited him to a meeting. He showed a slide show of kodachromes he had taken all over Greece, the Greek Islands, Asia Minor, and Crete.
He was a good photographer and the slides were fascinating as was his talk. He showed one of the throne of King Minos at Knossos. He mentioned that so many tourists had a seat on it that it was wearing.
Someone asked if he sat on it. He said "I am ashamed to say I did".
(It's o.k., I don't think it's original, I think it was cast in con"crete" by Sir Arthur Evans.)
My Archaeology prof had a bunch of cool slides too. He was head of the American School in Athens while they were excavating the Agora. Really neat stuff!
The man was either incredibly lucky or perhaps a much better archeologist than most of the professionals give him credit for.
As someone who owned a Geo and wears Trojans, I fully endorse this thread.
Geologists Show Homer Got It Right
Nature | 1-29-2003 | Philip Ball
Posted on 01/29/2003 7:58:53 PM EST by blam
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