Ulysses the Pirate

From: tgpedersen
Message: 60015
Date: 2008-09-14

I saw somewhere (but now I forgot where, and whether it was an ancient
source or new) that the Greeks after taking Troy were so destitute
(because they lost control of their home possessions, cf. Ulysses)
they had to resort to piracy. So I checked the dates:
Fall of Troy: 1188 BCE
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troy
Sea peoples:
Reign of Pharaoh Merneptah, 1213 BC to 1203 BC
Destruction of the city of Ugarit around 1180 BC
Ramesses III reigned for most of the first half of the 12th century BC
Later wave of invasions — the best recorded being in his eighth year
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_Peoples


So were the Sea peoples homeless Trojans and Greeks and their allies
aimlessly loitering in the Maditerranean?


Torsten