HIST 1001 Chapter : The Aegean Bronze Age Catastrophe Of 1200 BCE
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Some thought he wrote during bronze age itself. Some think homer was multiple people writing over time and "homer" was just a title for all of them as one. Business man, rich during gold rush selling mining equipment. After making mills in america, he set out to prove that trojan war had happened by locating city of troy. He combed through iliad and odyssey"s geographic sections; eventually found a place in turkey that resembled geographic area described in poems, called hissarlik. He was pretty much a treasure hunter, dug up city and ruined the remains of it, first 6 levels. Declared he had found troy and priam"s treasure (king of troy). At worst, he"s accused of being a liar, priam"s treasure was bought by him and buried and pretended to find it. Incompetent archaeologist who ruined the find of the century, he was more of a glory hound.
