Homer and the Micenian World

[Matthew Amt]

Keep in mind that the traditional chronology is screwed up, due to Egyptian influence. You have to knock 3 centuries off all the late Bronze Age dates, so the Trojan War was not c. 1250 but c. 950. The Dark Ages are mostly illusory, or at least MUCH shorter than generally taught. So Homer was only a few generations removed from the events and people he describes. Certain things like the ship list are straight out of Mycenaean Linear B lists.

This is only a shift of absolute dates before c. 1100, mind you, so the Dendra Panoply is still about 200 years earlier than the Trojan War era.

For more details,

http://www.larp.com/hoplite/chronology.html

Khairete,

Matthew