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To: blam

Very interesting. How does this date compare to those usually posited for Homer?


3 posted on 06/23/2008 5:42:00 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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I think most conservative scholars place the Trojan war around 1200 BC so this time frame (1178) describing the eclipse seems to fit that.

Homer himself wrote 400 or so years later after the events of the Trojan War. 800-750 or so BC.

10 posted on 06/23/2008 6:24:38 PM PDT by what's up
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The Trojan War as laid out in “The Iliad” either is a conflation of a large number of older stories, referring to a number of different eras, and doesn’t have a single author, orrrrrr, it is in sync with the 25th Dynasty of Egypt (there’s a clear reference, more than one, in “The Iliad” to one of the Ethiopian pharaohs), or 8th century BC through mid-7th c, and a similar range is usually given for Homer. :’)


17 posted on 06/23/2008 10:53:15 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/_________________________Profile updated Friday, May 30, 2008)
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