ancient sources ( it was Re: alb. gji)

From: altamix
Message: 19618
Date: 2003-03-06

> > I do not make claims. I gave a text of Strabo. Are there his
words or
> > mine?
>
> Yes, but he is Greek! And approximately 1000 years after the
Trojans.
> He tells us what the Greeks and other peoples of that time called
their
> hills and towns and rivers. He cannot tell us what people a
thousand years
> earlier called them.
>
> Your claim is that he tells us something about the Trojan language -
which
> is absurd.
>
> Peter

Well noted. As far I understand, you don't pay a clue on what Strabo
said since he was Greek and he wrote 1000 years later. And of course,
the Greeks gave the same name for hils, rivers and towns in Region of
Troj and Thrace but not somewhere else.

I hope you are kidding, otherways we have to burn all the ancient
sources since they are useless:-)

Alex