: The Romans believed to have originated from Troy after
: the Greeks destroyed it, the survivors led on a fleet
: of ships by Aeneas (of which the title of the
: Virgilian epic The Aeneid is derived. I suggest you
: read it, especially the Fitzgerald translation). These
: Trojans settled primitive Italy. Eventually, the
: Latins arose, and other myths akin to this,
: chronologically after, like Romulus the founder of
: Rome, came about.
Yeah, we're studying Rome now, so we just looked at the whole Romulos and Remus story. Very interesting actually, they were brought up by wolves and elected by birds.
: Actually, Homer based the Iliad off of the Ramayana ,
: a very descriptive Hindu tale rather similar to the
: Iliad , but it has more detail and some added
: information.
The Illiad is the story of Hector and Achilles right? Even if it is based on something else, it is still telling the story of the fall of Troy at the hands of the Mycanean Greeks.
: As for the city of Troy itself, that was never truly
: discovered. The ruins of that little village Schlemann
: found in a landlocked part of Turkey hardly come close
: to matching the description of Homer, as being an
: incredible city with enormous walls covered in metals
: like tin and a technologically advanced society; all
: of which sank into the ocean (for Troy was a naval
: city, and Schlemann's Troy is nowhere near the ocean,
: in any geologic time period of human history).
It may HAVE been found. History has an annoying habit of being hopelessly exaggerated. Like Atlantis, which I know you take an interest in, may not have been as technologically advanced as it was. Take Thomas Moore's Utopia, people thought it existed for some time. Herodotus explains that Sea Monsters infest the Aegean Sea. As you can see, exaggeration or ignorance can change a lot. For all we know, Troy was a normal walled city.
: Byzantium…yes, the Greeks founded that, I believe, but it
: was taken over by the Romans, and Constantine renamed
: it after himself when he shifted it to be the Roman
: capital; and now it's Istanbul.
Damn Romans, I preffered the Greeks,
In response to your wad o' information, very well researched/remembered, I'm not up for some research of my own to counter your opinions or support my own. So I'll agree.
: So what's this flood which covered Europe? All of Europe
: never was actually submerged by the sea.
Not all of Europe, just Noah's Europe. My bad!
: It depends. There are many possibilites. All the Earth’s
: tectonic activity would be set into unfathomable
: chaos, everything spewing out of the Earth and
: destroying the land. Or, perhaps, lava and all the
: rocks of the Cloudspine would fly and and destroy the
: world with physical bombardment, the shattered pieces
: of mountains covering it.
What exactly did Soulblighter intend to do? He didn't plug the volcano, he just wanted to make it erupt. A cataclysmic occurence, and one that would be world-shattering, but it wouldn't destroy the world without some special help.
: Nevertheless, the “world” of the Mythworlders is only
: that map and single continent.
That was my point. I wasn't posting a theory, just trying to point out that the apocalypse would only be final for the Mythworlders we know, not the other inhabitants of the world.
: Lol, you just defined apocalypse, “the destruction of the
: world”. The world is only what one knows it to be. We
: know the world to be our whole Earth. People in the
: classical world knew the equivalent of the
: Mythworlders, a European-sized landmass with nothing
: known beyond it. The Mythworlders think there’s
: nothing beyond the map boundaries, so there is only
: the one continent of the world. If the world is
: destroyed, that’s Apocalypse for them.
That's what I was trying to say. That it wouldn't destroy the Mythworld, just the world they knew. I wasn't arguing with an opinion, just pointing it out. :)
LR
