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The Menelaion: A Local Manifestation of a Pan-Hellenic Phenomenon

by De Armond, Thea
published on 13 December 2012
In his New History, the second century CE grammarian Ptolemy Chennos (also called Ptolemy Hephaestion) alleges that over two dozen celebrated women named Helen lived at the time of the Trojan War. These women include a painter, a woman who ate three dogs a day, and a woman from whom Homer took his account of the Trojan War. The New History of Ptolemy... [continue reading]
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  • 1750 BCE - 1300 BCE
    Troy VI - probable Troy of Homer's Iliad. City at its zenith.
  • c. 800 BCE - c. 700 BCE
    Homer of Greece writes his Iliad and Odyssey.