Message #2422

[rockessence]

SG,
From above:
"The Iliad records that the Thracians from around the Hellespont and also the Thracian Cicones fought on the side of the Trojans (Iliad, book II). The Odyssey records that Odysseus and his men raided Thrace on their way back home from war. "

Doesn't it sound ludicrous that "Odysseus and his men raided Thrace on their way back home from war. " if Thrace is in fact now called Bulgaria.

Odysseus and his men were purportedly from cities and kingdoms ringing the Mediterranean...?  How on earth would/could they have passed Thrace on their way from Schleimann's "Troy" to their respective home loci??

The only logical answer is that Homer wrote about events that happened in a location not in the Mediterranean...(see Felice Vinci's Homer in the Baltic) and that his writings told about events that predated the migrations south.