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Re:Late Bronze Age Collapse by mr_toad on Friday July 10, 2026 @10:30AM (#48860520)
The people of that era would have thought so. The Iliad and the Odyssey (if they have any basis in reality) might be examples of that period seen through a lens of mythology.
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Re:Late Bronze Age Collapse by bazoom42 on Friday July 10, 2026 @10:37AM (#48860617)
How so? Are the Greek the sea people then?
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Re:Late Bronze Age Collapse by mr_toad on Friday July 10, 2026 @10:45AM (#48860721)
Myths don’t have natural or human causes. Instead you have wars caused by divine rivalry (e.g. the Judgement of Paris).

Maybe Troy was actually destroyed by the Sea Peoples, but that probably wouldn’t make as much at the box office.

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Re:Late Bronze Age Collapse by tetromino_ on Friday July 10, 2026 @12:47PM (#48862353)
> Are the Greek the sea people then?

Very possibly a subset of the Sea Peoples were Greek. Egyptians reported the "Ekwesh" (which might be the Egyptian word for Achaeans) and the "Denyen" (which might be the Egyptian word for Danaans) among the Sea Peoples.

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