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To: Verginius Rufus; jimtorr
In Search of the Trojan War is a 1985 6-part British TV documentary series written and presented by Michael Wood. It examines the extent to which historical and archeological evidence matches with the tale of the Trojan War as recounted by Homer in The Iliad.

(time index set to the discussion of the Palace of Nestor; I think the snippet of Blegen's footage of the excavations is in the installment about the Hittite archive)
In search of the Trojan war - The Women of Troy (4/6) | April 26, 2013 | Quidam Graecus
In search of the Trojan war - The Women of Troy (4/6) | April 26, 2013 | Quidam Graecus

7 posted on 08/28/2022 4:52:28 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: SunkenCiv
Michael Wood has covered a lot of topics--I don't remember if I saw any of that series. Scholars are still very divided about the historicity of the Trojan War. There was a Troy but whether it was destroyed by Greeks is much debated.

In the Odyssey Homer has Telemachus visit Pylos hoping that Nestor might know something about Odysseus' fate or whereabouts. While there he is given a bath. Whether Telemachus existed or not, the bathtub is still there at Pylos.

8 posted on 08/28/2022 5:35:32 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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