From: deverett@c2i.net   
      
   On Fri, 09 Jul 2004 23:07:41 +0500, markovic wrote:   
      
   > In article , Larry   
   > Caldwell  wrote:   
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   >> I hope you are not staking your position on the work of Hood.  He was a   
   >> leader in his field 50 years ago, but has been dead for a decade now.   
   >   
   > this is a good reason to not depend upon the reputation of scholars.   
   > it's mainly charismatic personalities exerting influence.   
      
   Ventris was a scholar.  The difference between Ventris and Hood was that   
   Ventris was right.  By spitting on his achievements, you only proof what   
   an ignorant jerk you are.   
      
      
   >>   NOBODY doubts that   
   >> Linear B is Mycenaean Greek.   
   >   
   > linking it to a language is not the same thing as making conclusive   
   > translations of text.   
      
   Even if for the sake of argument we accept your assertion, it does not   
   change the fact that Troy and the Trojan War do not appear in any of the   
   linear B tablets, which is strange considering that they date from the   
   period in which the Trojan War is supposed to take place.  If the   
   occupation at Hisarlik known as "Troy VI" was Homer's Troy, then the   
   Trojan War ended about 1270 BC.  Since it is not mentioned in any   
   contemporary writings, including the linear B tablets, then either there   
   was a massive cover-up (ho-ho) or there was no such event.   
      
      
   >> We don't even know if the place was called Troy, or Ilium, or what have   
   >> you.  All we know is that it is named Hissarlik.   
   >   
   >   
   > consider a hypothetical situation. by the time the greeks emerged from   
   > their dark age and bagan to record history, there were people living at   
   > hissarlik. throughout the classical ages, various rebuildings of the   
   > city took place. these people called it troy or ilium.   
   >   
   > let's assume that the trojan war and homer's work are mostly fiction.   
      
   It's not exactly a radical assumption.  Homer's "Iliad" is fiction.   
      
   > there was no great seige that destroyed the city utterly. it suffered   
   > the same decline that many cities endured circa 1200bc. like many   
   > cities, there were periods of abandonment.   
   >   
   > this is the hypothetical part: the names troy and ilium were in   
   > continuous usage by the locals throughout the life of the city.   
      
   Ilium was a name introduced by the Greeks much later.  We do not know what   
   the inhabitants of "Troy VI" called their city.   
      
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