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.)
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)
To: Berosus
:’)
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
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