Archaeologists find suspected Trojan war-era couple

Reuters on Yahoo ^ | 9/22/09 | Reuters

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Thanks; I knew you’d come through with the goods!

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How The Homeric Epics Were Saved

The Homeric tests as were brought in Athens by Ipparchos at the 6th cent. b.C (Plato Ipparchos 228B) and classified by Pesistratos (Cicero de Oratore III, 13t) and classified by the philologists of Alexandria Museum, were saved on many codices from parchment (scrolls) or paper of 10th or 11th century. Some texts were in fragments from Rhapsodies and saved in papyri, scrolls and many other materials during the Greek - Roman period. Many codices contain some comments something which referred to the great philologists of Alexandria Museum like Zenodotos from Ephesus (4th-3rd cent. B.C), Aristophanes from Byzantium (3rd -2nd cent. B.C) and Aristarchos from Samothraka {3rd-2nd cent. B.C). Apart from comments also memorandums were saved written by philologists of Ptolemian and Roman period. The Byzantine Lexicon of Archbishop of Salonica Eustace (12th cent. A.C) consists useful sources of comments in many ancient writers from Archilochos to Pindar and in many Latin writers too. Thomas W. Alien......

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"How The Homeric Epics Were Saved"

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Cleidocranial Dysostosis and the Unity of the Homeric Epics:
An Essay
Eric Lewin Altschuler, MD, PhD
Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research
383:286-292, February 2001

Abstract: Numerous years ago, in this journal, Beasley diagnosed the character Thersites from Homer's Iliad with cleidocranial dysostosis. Additional evidence from the text is presented to support a diagnosis of cleidocranial dysostosis, and it is pointed out that this diagnosis may have implications in studying the question whether the two Homeric epics (the Iliad and the Odyssey) were composed by the same author.

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• The Homeric epics and the Gospel of Mark by Dennis Ronald MacDonald (p138)

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The Romans did not re-build Troy evidenced by the fact that Alexander the Great visited the city and went to the temple there to sacrifice

A city can certainly become depopulated in 300 years. From wiki -- A new city of Ilium was founded on the site in the reign of the Roman Emperor Augustus. It flourished until the establishment of Constantinople and declined gradually during the Byzantine era.

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The Romans gave the city a face lift - sort of how Constantinople was rebuilt as a new city over Byzantium - it does not mean the city that existed before the "Ilium" of Roman Emperor Augustus was depopulated as was the case on Roman sacked Corinth and Carthage.

But in any case - Troy was not a "lost" city is what it shows.