Homer's Iliad based on historical fact - new evidence.

[Technosoul]

The story that Homer wrote about Iliad was about a real person according to historical evidence discovered recently. They found his house on a greek island, according to the wicca news network. The new discovery takes Homer out of the mythology section and puts his writings in the same status as other books that have historical evidence - such as the Bible.

Check out the news story and let me know what you think about this new data.

http://wiccanet.us/CMS/modules.php?o...rticle&sid=299

[CallousGiant]

Ajax played a major role in the iliad but it wasn't ABOUT him. And of course there was some truth behind the story, there is some truth behind most myths and legends......

Homer could've just seen that Ajax seemed like a good person to put in a story and then exaggerate his achievements...

Not that I've got anything against the illiad, I think its a great piece of work and I studied it at school when I was younger.

[Technosoul]

By the way the news story came from Athens.

It mentioned two sites that were talked about in Homer's poem. The new one and another one near Athens.

Also they found relics that suggest he made a journey to other places as the poem so noted. The news story said that Ajax was one of the people in the poem, not that the poem was just about that one person.

So was Homer's poem about real people and real places, or total mythology based on Homer's imagination? And did those events acturally occur but in perhaps a less exaggerated manner?

[RickSp]

Quote by: Technosoul By the way the news story came from Athens. It mentioned two sites that were talked about in Homer's poem. The new one and another one near Athens. Also they found relics that suggest he made a journey to other places as the poem so noted. The news story said that Ajax was one of the people in the poem, not that the poem was just about that one person. So was Homer's poem about real people and real places, or total mythology based on Homer's imagination? And did those events acturally occur but in perhaps a less exaggerated manner?

I think it has generally been accepted that the Illiad was at least based on historical events since Schliemann excavated Hissarlik, the site he identified as the site of the city of Troy, back in the 1870s. Most of the geography identified in the Illiad were known to exist or have existed. The article you cite is about more historical evidence, but is hardly the first historical evidence. The Illiad is far better supported by evidence than most Christian mythology even though the Christian tales are relatively younger.