From: deverett@c2i.net   
      
   On Sun, 27 Jun 2004 10:12:07 +0500, markovic wrote:   
      
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   >> Larry Caldwell  wrote in message   
   >> news:...   
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   >> > Troy is still a myth.  Schliemann may have found a city located where   
   >> > Troy was supposed to be, but further excavation showed that the Troy of   
   >> > Homer never existed.   
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   > i think you've got that backwards. the romans knew where troy is. The   
   > turks of schliemann's time knew where troy is. we know where troy is.   
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   Just as we know where the Holy Grail is, don't we?   
      
   We don't know where Troy is, or even where it was.  You don't know where   
   Troy was, or whether it even was.  The Romans did not know, nor did the   
   Turks know.   
      
   Schliemann found a city that was (probably) Ilium, a Greek city founded in   
   the 7th century BC on the ruins of an older city that the Aeolian Greeks   
   identified with Homer's Troy.  Later the Romans patronized Ilium and its   
   temple of Athena, because of the legend that Rome had been founded by   
   refugees from Troy.  They believed Ilium to be on the site of Troy,   
   although there was no evidence to support this belief.   
      
   Neither Schliemann nor anyone else has been able to prove that Ilium was   
   founded at Troy.  Or that the city of Troy ever existed, except in Homeric   
   tradition.   
      
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