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Today I learned that, unlike Hollywood depicts it, ancient Troy was not part of the european/hellenic cultural sphere. It was a purely Anatolian indigenous polity, similar to the Hittites (In fact, T… (lemmy.nz)

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[–] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Do you live in the pre-Schliemann era?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historicity_of_the_Iliad

[–] TeaWithDani@lemmy.world -3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Nope, its not because Schliemann was a Homer otaku that his discoveries were what he said they were. Guy had a worldview and made the evidence fit it.

There are many cities that were looted and rebuilt several times in the ancient world while having large walls.

[–] Bourff@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

https://www.britannica.com/place/Hisarlik

"...Hisarlık has been largely acknowledged by scholars as the site of historical Troy [...]".

[–] TeaWithDani@lemmy.world -3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Feel free to read those scholars if you want to be unimpressed. I am unconvinced by the faint evidence.

I'll grant them it's more historical than Atlantis.