Homeric rock-throwers and PIE mythical warfare

From: Joao S. Lopes
Message: 63592
Date: 2009-03-09

"Why Homeric heroes love throwing rocks? They throw rocks at each other even if they still have their swords. Some of the great victims or would-be victims of rock throwing: Hector, Aeneas, Hector's charioteer. I picked this commentary in a blog, and now I add to it a mythological doubt: Could these rock-throwing acts represent some IE mythic weapon?
 
The Iliad background seems clearly a belief that Heroes' Age's ancient men were much stronger than Iron Age's people. Heroes like Ajax or Aeneas could lift several hundred of kilograms easily.
 
JS Lopes


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