Re: Ulysses the Pirate

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There is a very intriguing fact about some sea-people
Some of them were apparently circumcised.

This detail is generally completely ignored by most sites dealing with
possible identifications of these enigmatic people.

I have no opinion if we can take this information for a "fact".

Were Anatolians or Greek people circumcised ?
I suppose not !?

Arnaud

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From: "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...>
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Sent: Sunday, September 14, 2008 9:16 PM
Subject: [tied] Ulysses the Pirate





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



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