sanitation@lemmy.today to interestingasfuck@lemmy.world · 20 days agoToday 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.todayimagemessage-square19linkfedilinkarrow-up129arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up129arrow-down1imageToday 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.todaysanitation@lemmy.today to interestingasfuck@lemmy.world · 20 days agomessage-square19linkfedilinkfile-text
minus-squareTeaWithDani@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-220 days agoNope, 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.
minus-squareBourff@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·20 days agohttps://www.britannica.com/place/Hisarlik “…Hisarlık has been largely acknowledged by scholars as the site of historical Troy […]”.
minus-squareTeaWithDani@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-220 days agoFeel 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.
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.
https://www.britannica.com/place/Hisarlik
“…Hisarlık has been largely acknowledged by scholars as the site of historical Troy […]”.
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.