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Ok, why are the Hittites never mentioned ONCE in the Iliad? 2017-09-13 01:56:05 Post No. 3375825
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Ok, why are the Hittites never mentioned ONCE in the Iliad?
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Ok, it is composed some centuries after the Mycenean age I get it, but still, not one, nto even a faint, mythical memories?
Hittites are frequent and direct contacts with Myceneans, they went to want to war against them, they exhanged letters, Myceneans even invaded Cyprus, which was under Hittite control at the time, and the Hittites even wrote about that event!
Myceneans had colonies in West Anatolia, bordering Hittite territories, and Mycenean greek even aided West anatolian city states in their rebellion against the Hittites according to Hittite accounts, the Hittite king called the Achean king "his brother" in Hittite records for fuck's sake!
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Because the Iliad was written down 500 years later as a systematisation of centuries of oral poetry passed down by bards. You think they're going to remember the exact political circumstances of 1200 BC? Have you ever played Chinese whispers, because it's like that.
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