@@mystai Schliemann had an opinion which I believe was wrong with regards to Troy When it comes to ancient history, sometimes even though we think we know 100% to be right, In fact we’re wrong, I know I’ve been there. He was a great man, but a big, big question mark on Troy
@@dp6003 Schliemann's excavations at Hisarlik were not good by modern standards. He began with the Hellenistic & Classical era layers and just dug straight down to the Bronze Age until he found structures that vaguely resembled descriptions from the Iliad and then declared that the site was Troy. Layer VII does have evidence of siege and burning around the end of the Bronze Age, but the city was rebuilt within a generation and continued to trade with Mycenaeans uninterrupted, so clearly Homer's narrative is ideological not historical.
I'm having to download it to watch later. As I'll be going to an area with little Internet!
I hope you get to watch it all okay!
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I love Schliemann , but this was not Troy
@@dp6003 I'd recommend the previous episode to understand how the narrative of Troy as a single conflict got conflated.
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Schliemann had an opinion which I believe was wrong with regards to Troy
When it comes to ancient history, sometimes even though we think we know 100% to be right,
In fact we’re wrong, I know I’ve been there.
He was a great man, but a big, big question mark on Troy
@@dp6003 I address exactly this problem of identity and the issues with Schliemann in this video :)
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Run it past me again,I seem to have missed something
And I would hazard a guess that the so called date is wrong
@@dp6003 Schliemann's excavations at Hisarlik were not good by modern standards. He began with the Hellenistic & Classical era layers and just dug straight down to the Bronze Age until he found structures that vaguely resembled descriptions from the Iliad and then declared that the site was Troy.
Layer VII does have evidence of siege and burning around the end of the Bronze Age, but the city was rebuilt within a generation and continued to trade with Mycenaeans uninterrupted, so clearly Homer's narrative is ideological not historical.