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The people of that era would have thought so. The Iliad and the Odyssey (if they have any basis in reality) might be examples of that period seen through a len
by mr_toad 3mo ago
The people of that era would have thought so. The Iliad and the Odyssey (if they have any basis in reality) might be examples of that period seen through a lens of mythology.
- bazoom42 3mo agoHow so? Are the Greek the sea people then?
- mr_toad 3mo agoMyths don’t have natural or human causes. Instead you have wars caused by divine rivalry (e.g. the Judgement of Paris). Maybe Troy was actually destroyed by the Sea Peoples, but that probably wouldn’t make as much at the box office.
- tetromino_ 3mo ago> Are the Greek the sea people then? Very possibly a subset of the Sea Peoples were Greek. Egyptians reported the "Ekwesh" (which might be the Egyptian word for Achaeans) and the "Denyen" (which might be the Egyptian word for Danaans) among the Sea Peoples.