Luke Caverns

That can get kind of muddy because we are talking about the Odyssey, which is a historical fiction that's written around 800 BC about events that took place somewhere around 400 years earlier. But there's all kinds of things in Homer's writing where... we have evidence of the fact that he's using real peoples and places as part of his historical narrative.

That can get kind of muddy because we are talking about the Odyssey, which is a historical fiction that's written around 800 BC about events that took place somewhere around 400 years earlier. But there's all kinds of things in Homer's writing where... we have evidence of the fact that he's using real peoples and places as part of his historical narrative.

But that doesn't mean that Agamemnon, Menelaus, Helen of Sparta, Achilles, Hector, you can go Andromache, it doesn't mean any of those people actually existed, but Troy, Mycenae, Sparta, Ithaca, these are all real people and places.

But that doesn't mean that Agamemnon, Menelaus, Helen of Sparta, Achilles, Hector, you can go Andromache, it doesn't mean any of those people actually existed, but Troy, Mycenae, Sparta, Ithaca, these are all real people and places.

But that doesn't mean that Agamemnon, Menelaus, Helen of Sparta, Achilles, Hector, you can go Andromache, it doesn't mean any of those people actually existed, but Troy, Mycenae, Sparta, Ithaca, these are all real people and places.

And so that can be, you know, the lotus eaters could have been something that's famous around the Bronze Age, Eastern Mediterranean, that there's this place where these people are constantly getting high, you know? So Egyptian origins of Minoan civilization and religion. So this is a little side note here. So many archaeologists and historians, including Sir Arthur Evans himself.

And so that can be, you know, the lotus eaters could have been something that's famous around the Bronze Age, Eastern Mediterranean, that there's this place where these people are constantly getting high, you know? So Egyptian origins of Minoan civilization and religion. So this is a little side note here. So many archaeologists and historians, including Sir Arthur Evans himself.

And so that can be, you know, the lotus eaters could have been something that's famous around the Bronze Age, Eastern Mediterranean, that there's this place where these people are constantly getting high, you know? So Egyptian origins of Minoan civilization and religion. So this is a little side note here. So many archaeologists and historians, including Sir Arthur Evans himself.

Now, this is the man who, quote unquote, discovered Minoan civilization. He's really the guy that bought that bought the land that the palace of Knossos on Crete exists. They knew that something was there and they knew that it may be related to this famous King Minos. So he buys it, he discovers it, and he believed or proposed that

Now, this is the man who, quote unquote, discovered Minoan civilization. He's really the guy that bought that bought the land that the palace of Knossos on Crete exists. They knew that something was there and they knew that it may be related to this famous King Minos. So he buys it, he discovers it, and he believed or proposed that

Now, this is the man who, quote unquote, discovered Minoan civilization. He's really the guy that bought that bought the land that the palace of Knossos on Crete exists. They knew that something was there and they knew that it may be related to this famous King Minos. So he buys it, he discovers it, and he believed or proposed that

Either A, Minoan religion was derivative of Egyptian religion and Minoan society was largely inspired by Egypt, or B, the Minoans were Egyptian colonists who continued to pay back tribute to the pharaoh until the Bronze Age collapsed.

Either A, Minoan religion was derivative of Egyptian religion and Minoan society was largely inspired by Egypt, or B, the Minoans were Egyptian colonists who continued to pay back tribute to the pharaoh until the Bronze Age collapsed.

Either A, Minoan religion was derivative of Egyptian religion and Minoan society was largely inspired by Egypt, or B, the Minoans were Egyptian colonists who continued to pay back tribute to the pharaoh until the Bronze Age collapsed.

And I put the former is probably the more accurate one, that Minoan religion may have been derivative of Egyptian religion and that society may have been inspired by Egypt. I think that one's probably more true, even though they have so many peculiarities.

And I put the former is probably the more accurate one, that Minoan religion may have been derivative of Egyptian religion and that society may have been inspired by Egypt. I think that one's probably more true, even though they have so many peculiarities.

And I put the former is probably the more accurate one, that Minoan religion may have been derivative of Egyptian religion and that society may have been inspired by Egypt. I think that one's probably more true, even though they have so many peculiarities.

That's an unknown.

That's an unknown.

That's an unknown.