Re: [tied] Troj ( it was ancient sources)

From: P&G
Message: 19650
Date: 2003-03-09

> If not, tell me what you dislike or why you don not agree with the way I
> gone.

(a) Distinguish fiction from fact.
(b) Can you think of any reason why a Greek work, such as Homer, would
pretend Greeks and Trojans were able to speak to each other? It wouldn't
make much sense to Greek listeners, if the Trojan speech was given in
something foreign. We cannot take this as historical evidence.
(c) You suggested Trojans spoke Thracian because of the Thracian toponyms.
Now you are suggesting the Thracian names arrived later.

What's wrong with it? Try reading previous emails.

Peter