| The crab's
thought (October 2000) What the crab thinks in his hole-garden.
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| The crab's
thought (October 2000) What the crab thinks in his hole-garden.
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| You can read about the Troy's War almost as last days
news; the protagonists directly will tell you the facts; and you can see
the heros acting in a closer scenario so that you can understand the true
reasons of that war. You can do it reading 'The Troy's song' by Colleen
McCullogh. Every chapter is told by one of the protagonists or by a character
directly or indirectly implied in the war. The first teller is Priam, then
Peleus, Achilles's father, then the Centaur Chiron, who, according to the
sources, was the teacher of Achiles and Aiax. Then Helen, Paris, Hector,
Agamennon, Ulysses, Diomedes, Patroclus, Briseis, Aeneas, Nestor, Automedon,
the Achilles's charioteer, and Neoptolemus, the Achilles's son. Every character, talking about himself, exits from his legendary atmosphere where the blind father of all the poets saw him. So every character cooperates to clear the great scenario that appeared so far and so unreal when we studied it at the school. I never believed the Helena's rat was the true reason of the war. So I agree with the Author when she says that a coalition of many kings of greek 'poleis' decided to destroy the rich Troy in order to open the way of the Dardanelles strait to reach the tin mines: the tin was a necessary metal to make the bronze. And we are in the bronze Age. If the Greeks knew that in few years the iron was going to be invented, perhaps were not worried for the tin.  mic.dang@tiscalinet.it mic.dang@libero.it BACK TO HOME
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