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In Search of the Trojan War is a 1985 6-part British TV documentary series written and presented by Michael Wood. It examines the extent to which historical and archeological evidence matches with the tale of the Trojan War as recounted by Homer in The Iliad.
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Trojan War [Wikipedia]
Iliad [Wikipedia]
Michael Wood [Wikipedia]
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"In Search of the Trojan War"...a Michael Wood BBC production
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Wikipedia...
In Search of the Trojan War is a 1985 6-part British TV documentary series written and presented by Michael Wood. It examines the extent to which historical and archeological evidence matches with the tale of the Trojan War as recounted by Homer in The Iliad.
The Age of Heroes
#1
The Legend Under Siege
#2
The Singer of Tales
#3
The Women of Troy
#4
Empire of the Hittites
#5
The Fall of Troy
#6
Trojan War [Wikipedia]
Iliad [Wikipedia]
Michael Wood [Wikipedia]
- Modern Mencken
Tomorrow is Mencken day at the Enoch Pratt Library, honoring one of the great intellects of Baltimore. Who would be the modern day version of H.L. Mencken? Is there a writer who is smart, ascerbic, conservative, and wry? P.J. O'Rourke? ...
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Two questions from Michael Schmidt. First, "Frack" a suitable substitute for the expletive "fuck," and "frickin'" (or "frikkin'") is a suitable substitute for the participle "fuckin'". Why, then, is "frick" rarely used as a substitute...
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Are historians scientists? They frame hypotheses about the causes and effects of real events and use empirical evidence to support their accounts. But they don't do not look for regularities to make into laws; to the contrary, they account...
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