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The Role of Myth in the Trojan War
- Valid religious belief
- Mark Cartwright
- ‘religion was personal, direct and present in all areas of life’
- explicit moral messages
- ‘religion was personal, direct and present in all areas of life’
- mythology explained
creation, the existence of
mankind and all human
affairs.
- re-tell historical events so that
people could maintain contact
with their ancestors, the wars
they fought, and the places
they explored.
- Mark Cartwright
- Homer's Iliad/literature of the time
- - homer’s work conforms to greek
mythology, matching the literature
of the time
- Manfred Korfmann
- ‘Homer should be taken
seriously...
based on a memory of historical
events‘
- 'nothing in the archaeological record
to contradict the assertion that Troy
and the surrounding countryside
formed the setting for Homer's Iliad
in 700 B.C.'
- ‘Homer should be taken
seriously...
based on a memory of historical
events‘
- - homer’s work conforms to greek
mythology, matching the literature
of the time
- Physical evidence
- manfred korfmman
- 'my response as an
archaeologist working at
Troy would be: Why not?'
- 'my response as an
archaeologist working at
Troy would be: Why not?'
- Henrich Schliemann
- topography
- Bryce R. Trevor
- the remains of a large
stronghold fit the
description of a
watchtower described in
the Iliad. (VI level)
- the remains of a large
stronghold fit the
description of a
watchtower described in
the Iliad. (VI level)
- pottery and ceramic evidence
- manfred korfmman
- Unsure of fourth argument
- ‘Myth and history are a close kin inasmuch as both
explain how things got to be the way they are by telling of
some sort of story’ - William H. McNeill
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