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The Controversy of How the Greeks Used Chariots in the Trojan War
Did the Greeks really use chariots how Homer describes in his account of the Trojan War, or did Homer just misrepresent ...
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Homer’s Greek Was Never a Spoken Language, Yet It Lives on in Modern Greek
Homer's language, used in his epic poems, which laid the foundations of Western literature, was never spoken but echoes in ...
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Archaeologists In Greece May Have Just Found The Ancient Temple Of Odysseus, Hero Of The Trojan War And Homer’s ‘Odyssey’
Few figures in ancient mythology remain as legendary to this day as Odysseus, the fabled Greek king of Ithaca who devised the ...
Ancient Greek inscriptions point to the ‘Sanctuary of Odysseus’
An announcement on June 9 from the Greek Ministry of Culture cites the discovery of a rare underground spring cistern dating to the 14th–13th centuries BCE, during the Mycenaean palatial period.
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Ancient 3,500-year-old Mycenaean armor tested in epic combat simulation shows Homer’s Iliad wasn’t just a fantasy story after all
This period of destruction and upheaval marked the beginning of the Iron Age,” the researchers added. The findings appeared in the journal PLoS ONE . This article originally appeared in May 2024 ...
Bronze statue, artifacts reveal ancient cult of Odysseus on Ithaca
Dating the fountain to the Mycenaean palace period seems highly probable ... underscoring the importance of this area in ancient times," noted Popular Science. Archaeologists have been exploring the ...