Posted on 04/20/2014 6:28:34 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
/johnny
When I was at Troy we had a professor of Classics, Dr. Agnew who may have been the smartest person I ever personally knew. He had done just what you want to do and took slides everywhere he went.
I belonged to the Geography Club and we had him one night to tell us about the Aegean, Asia Minor and Crete. He seemed to have spent most of his time on Crete which led to my interest in it.
He had also visited the old Mycenean ruins rather than Athens and the more well known sites. The only thing which bothered me is he would often answer a question with “I don’t know” when I suspected he did know or at least had an idea.
Troy the city in the US, or, y’know, *the* Troy?
The Troy in Alabama whose teams are the Trojans. The real men of Troy unlike USC.
Troy University recently signed an agreement to add more students to move between Troy University in Alabama and Canakkale Onsekiz Mart University only 18 miles from Troia (the real Troy). The Turkish University has a large student body and a beautifully made wooden Trojan Horse at their school.
Which TROY? Pergamos, Hisarlik or Illias.
I don’t think Pergamos is any where near Troy. Hisarlik is the site of Ilium. So both are Troy.
Well where in the world did I come up with Pergamos? I must re-read THE ILIAD again.
I think just about any city of any size in the Aegean, Eastern Mediterranean or Ionian Sea were mentioned by Homer probably to make the story more interesting to the people living in those areas.
I just spent a couple of years in Italy as an ex-Pat. It gave me a great opportunity to really see the old stuff without being too hurried. I also got to see obscure antiquities off the beaten path....
a real state, eh, as opposed to a fake state...at least they don't claim to have new 'real Estate'.
Dunno, the Pergamos was apparently the region around Pergamum, and mentioned (probably not favorably) in Revelation. :’)
https://www.google.com/search?q=The+Pergamos
Oh, I was thinkin’ somewhere else.
Looks like an ESL problem.
That’s probably the best way. :’)
:’)
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