: They did in fact, their destroyed motherland from which
: they sprang.
A motherland yes, but not a paradise.
: Umm, no? Yes it was, as visible by their greatly-numbered
: ships and ability to carry hundreds of thousands of
: men away from the city when it was destroyed.
: It’s alluded to by Homer in both epics and in the Aeneid.
: “I looked back on my city as the waves came crashing
: upon its walls as Poseidon reaped his vengeance.”
Poseidon certainly helped in the city's destruction (from archaeological evidence, it is possible that Troy's walls might have come down in an earthquake. Posidon was the patron god of Earthquakes, and also the patron god of horses. The "wooden horse" might well have been a statue put up by the victorious Mycenaens in thanks to the sea god for having secured their victory. He also sent that big serpent to eat their chief priest.
: Wtf? Then what kept it from being destroyed by the
: Greeks? They were powerful enough to at least equal
: the Greeks.
Troy had two major advantages, these being strong fortress walls and large numbers of allies, including the Amazons (as mentioned in the Illiad), and Troy may well ahave headed a coalition of Anatolian tribes and cities after the Hittites lost control in the West (Wilusa, usually identified with Troy, was regarded by the Hittite king as one of his most reliable allies, having always stood aloof from any anti-Hittite rebellion.)
: You said yourself there were, among, what you believed,
: where anachronismic things like iron being used for
: meneal labor yet with bronze for weapons.
The Troy of which Homer writes was destroyed in about 900 BC. This was well within the bronze age. Chances are, both weapons and tools would have been bronze.
: Oh? Where is a Greek city described in the Illiad?
I haven't read the Illiad, but I know it describes both Sparta and Pylos, both of which were still major cities at the time of the Pelopopenessean war.
: Wrong; the representation of the virginal motherland and
: the female goddess are very much prevalent.
: The earth herself is related to the goddess.
Not having read that much on Atlantis, I can't comment.
: Wrong; Venus.
Venus (or Aphrodite as she would have been) was not a mother godess, she was a godess of love. The closest thing the Greek pantheon has to mother godesses are Gaia, who was not generally worshipped directly, and Rhea, mother of the Olympians, who was a Titan, not a godess, and hence not worshipped at all.
: …except for all those cultures that directly worship a
: father god over the mother (Egypt).
Well, consider that it was the cult of Isis (not the Egyptian pantheon, just Isis) that was one of the three major contenders for the post of primary religion during the Dark Ages (the other two contenders being Christianity and Mithraism).
: Not really since the Greeks were at war with the
: Atlanteans.
There's no reason why you can't venerate a heroic rival.
Martel.
