Word: trojan
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...turned up for very few sessions. What is more, Kenneth Lewis, a Tory M.P., suggests that Bernadette may have violated her parliamentary oath of allegiance in calling for a U.S. boycott of British products. "Obviously," he said, "the British Parliament has got an M.P. who is a 'Trojan filly...
...Kennedy keeps turning the conversation away from her own family's grief to that of Mary Jo Kopechne's parents. Their agony reminds her of the Euripides tragedy, The Trojan Women. "It is fundamentally unnatural for an older person to have to bury a younger one," she explains...
...site of Troy itself. Shortly after the German amateur archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann began digging into an 85-ft.-high mound called Hissarlik (Turkish for palace) in the northwestern corner of Turkey in 1870, he decided that he had unearthed the remnants of Priam's palace and the Trojan King's treasure...
...hillside. None of these historic Troys, Berve savs, would in any way be familiar to the Iliad's readers, except that they overlooked a plain near the Aegean Sea. In fact, the layer that most closely coincides with the date suggested by Homeric scholars for the Trojan War (circa 1200 B.C.), and that is known as Trov VI to archaeologists, seems entirely improbable as the battle site. Berve gives two reasons: 1) the fortifications enclose an area where no more than a few hundred people could have lived, whereas Homer said Trov had 50,000 inhabitants, and 2) Troy...
...have patterned his story on an actual event. Because Homer wrote 400 years after the war, adds U.S. Archaeologist Rhys Carpenter, he probably could be forgiven lapses on particulars. Berve does not think that Homer should be treated so charitably as a historian, but he concedes that, while the Trojan War is probably the "figment of the poet's imagination," that should not detract from the literary value of Homer's epic. When he ends his lectures, Berve quotes Schiller's poem, "To My Friends...