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To: SunkenCiv

Both Rohl and Velikovsky put the Trojan War in the ninth century B.C., give or take a decade. Thus, Homer would have lived then, or in the early eighth century.


23 posted on 06/24/2008 2:50:28 AM PDT by Berosus (Supports the troops, bring them home -- from the Balkans.)
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To: Salamander

This eclipse needs more cowbell ping.


24 posted on 06/24/2008 3:00:19 AM PDT by shibumi (".....panta en pasin....." - Origen)
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To: Berosus

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http://www.varchive.org/dag/trowar.htm

> Phrygians as allies of Priam, in the hinterland of the Troad, in conflict with the Cimmerians, themselves pursued by the Scythians, would limit the period of the Trojan War to the years between -720 and -687.


25 posted on 06/24/2008 9:27:22 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/_________________________Profile updated Friday, May 30, 2008)
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