Professor Edith Hall
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They're full of practical Greek lore.
The Odyssey's got lots about how to build an orchard, what trees you need for an orchard in Laertes' garden.
So it's a combination of how to be Greek, how to entertain yourselves, and the long nights on that cold, dark shore of southern Ukraine.
You've got a copy so you can recite it to each other with actual practical instructions.
I love it.
Yes, it's useful enough to ask.
I think you're going to come up with a negative for the very specific expedition.
There is no way there were a thousand ships, even Thucydides already by the 5th century.
said this was completely impossible.
You know, your average colonial expedition, it might have five triremes or something.
I mean, there wasn't enough wood in Greece.
There wasn't enough forest to chop down to make a thousand ships.
But there were collaborations between different city states where these, as I say, disaffected young men who can't get married because they haven't got an inheritance.
This is the classic colonist.
They get together and they will get together with two or three other city states, usually speaking the same dialect.
It's quite tribal, the same type of Greek.
And they would go off together and they would arrive in Libya or the Ukraine or even Egypt, north shore of Egypt, and they would intermarry.
They didn't take women with them.
They intermarried, which is one of the fascinating things about how cosmopolitan ancient Greeks were.
When it comes to the particular site, which people have identified since the 19th century with a place called Hisarlik in the Troad, that is the northwest corner of Turkey.
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