05-23-2004, 07:58 AM
        The release of the TROY film has archaeologists, historians, and classicists fulminating on the faults of the film. The lastest Archaeology mgagzine has a set of articles on sidebars on current digs and linguistic analysis. Current focus is on Hittite records of an Indo-European people who settled western and southern Anatolia, whom we call Luwians and their dialect Luwiyan, who had continuing conflicts with a seafaring peoples, the Ahhiyawa, in a region called Wilusa. Archaic Greek philology projects Bronze Age /w/ sounds that later disappear by Homeric times, and these become Illios from Willios, and Achaioi from Achaiwoi.<br>
        Classical Greek as "civilized" was really an outgrowth of Alexander's Hellenic empire. Modern Turkish had its own distict origins; its relation to ancient Hittite is another can of worms entirely.<br>
        Homer has Trojans speaking Greek, just as TROY has Greeks and Trojans speaking English (though there are some interesting background chatter as the Greeks land on the beach, with orders being relayed in both ancient and modern Greek dialects).<br>
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Wade Heaton<br>
[email protected] <br>
www.togaman.com <p></p><i></i>
        Classical Greek as "civilized" was really an outgrowth of Alexander's Hellenic empire. Modern Turkish had its own distict origins; its relation to ancient Hittite is another can of worms entirely.<br>
        Homer has Trojans speaking Greek, just as TROY has Greeks and Trojans speaking English (though there are some interesting background chatter as the Greeks land on the beach, with orders being relayed in both ancient and modern Greek dialects).<br>
<br>
Wade Heaton<br>
[email protected] <br>
www.togaman.com <p></p><i></i>
