careful you'll set off the conspiritard
/brit/
Alexander Gonzalez
Jaxson Taylor
reckon this czech lad is 20-21
Owen Fisher
bizarro porkesheed
Lucas Anderson
DOGSHIT
Luke Brown
youtube.com
what's his endgame?
Noah Reed
this is where the achaians led by agamemnon (or equivalent mycaenaean king) landed to attack troy, or "wilusa" as it was called locally
the river has completely silted up what used to be a large bay and is now just fields, but the topography of the ancient promontory is still very clear in a 3d map, as is the sheltered cove where the greeks landed
still signs of the earthworks they constructed at its entrance too
for orientation troy is almost exactly 5km away directly east (picture is looking west towards the aegean)
interesting
strabo writes that the greek camp was "20 stades from Ilium", thats roughly 4km so he was pretty accurate in his assumption
illustration and topographic map for reference
in bed now but was just reading the passage about the achaians' wall again. poseidon is jealous of it so zeus says he can "burst thou this wall asunder and scatter it all into the sea, and cover the great sea-beach over with sand again" once the achaians had gone
so not only was homer aware of the geography, but he knew that trojan bay had silted up since the time of the war; he was aware of how the landscape had changed over time
interested in the trojan war at the moment so ive done a drawing the green marks the coastline 3000 years ago, red is the trojans, dark blue is the greeks, they beached their ships inside the bay and built a wall/palisade/dyke across the promontory which they sallied from
think good arguments can be made for both besik bay and the sigeion ridge being the site of the achaeans landing during the trojan war
as for the former, it was a larger beach, easier to reach, and would be better logistically due to its position for seaborne supplies and the availability of fresh water
as for the latter, it was a far stronger position militarily and would have been much easier to defend, and has clear topographic relationship with the iliad's description; the equivalence between the kesik cut and achaean wall being a good example
Ethan Wright
Rorke spending his days at the packaged sandwich factory and his nights on the special brew
Leftypol finishing his PhD and launching a successful business, whilst helping his wife raise two beautiful, curious children
Henry Kelly
the fwb literally said to me "i don't like watching films where you have to think, i like shitty movies"
Lincoln Miller
The only way to fix Britain is to kill all rorkes and all rasheeds.
Easton Ortiz
most girls like eyes wide shut to be fair.
happiness (todd solondz) isn't a good choice though