Posted on 09/22/2009 12:57:53 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
Actually, I do.
Bons mots only
Korbel works too.
(clink of glass)
is that a couple from the Trojan War Era, or a couple using Trojans just before he shipped out for WWII?
Thanks for clearing that up. At first I thought they were playing a bunch of horny middle aged women.
Archaeologists work on the remains of a man and a woman believed to have died in 1,200 B.C. in the ancient city of Troy in northwestern Turkey in this undated handout photo. Archaeologists in the ancient city of Troy in Turkey have found the remains of a man and a woman believed to have died in 1,200 B.C., the time of the legendary war chronicled by Homer, a leading German professor said on Tuesday. REUTERS/Project Troy/Handout (TURKEY ENVIRONMENT SOCIETY IMAGES OF THE DAY) FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY. NOT FOR SALE FOR MARKETING OR ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS
I’ve been following pro football since my college team doesn’t seem able to beat the team from St. Mary’s School for Wayward, Deaf, Blind & Halt Girls.
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Because of their invincible elitism. See also: Anthropogenic Global Warming.
No, the real Troy is located in South Alabama.
I specked he did not mean mote.
Oh yeah, the other one ....
And when I read the title, I thought this thread was going to be about condoms. Go figure.
There’s a joke story headline about it on FARK ....
Well, why not. :-D
That was a LONG time ago. Troy was rediscovered in the late 19th century and has slowly been excavated and the theory of 1865 has been mostly confirmed. When I studied history in college (1970s) it was still a subject of controversy, but opinion leaning towards "we found it". Now it seems to have swung decisively to "yep, here it is". Troy the Wikipedia article is decent.
Buried near a tiny dust particle?
That is pretty much my idea of the situation too with a small difference. My impression was that Schliemann’s discovery was pretty much accepted as Troy until fairly recently when much doubt was cast on it.
Then in the last 20 years they have pretty much swung back to agreeing that it really is the site of Troy.
BTW, I was in college about the same time as you and was a Classics major for a while.
A standard biography of Alexander I read tells the story of him visiting the Tomb of Achilles. Perhaps this is apochraphal too, or perhaps not. The story is that he took possession of Achilles breastplate. We will probably never know what percent is real and what fanciful, other than it's neither 0% true nor 100% true.
I too remember reading of Alexander visiting the tomb of Achilles. Of course Alexander thought he was a descendant of both Achilles and Zeus.
My own guess is the tomb and breastplate were the result of local entrepreneurs using the site of Troy to make money from tourists. On the other hand they really did seem to know the location of Troy and time has proven them correct.
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