Premiere Issue 1998
ARCHAEOLOGY SCIENCE EXPLORE EXPLORER EXPLORING ARCHAEOLOGIST DIG DIGGER DIGGING MUMMY SEARCH TOMB RAIDER HISTORY HISTORIES RESEARCH RESEARCHER RESEARCHERS RESEARCHS RESEARCHES
34 Reading Homer After
2,800 Years
J A S P E K GRIFFIN
Homer's epics have become perma-
nent residents in the imagination of
the West. In an age of television and
the Internet, sound bites and fast
food, how do two three-millennia-old
poems continue to enchant, inspire,
lerrify-and endure?
44 An Odyssey
Debate: Who
Invented the
Alphabet?
BARRY B. POWELL
THE CREEKS
P. KYLE McCARTER.JR.
THE SEMITES
According to many scholars, the
alphabet was invented just
once—by Semites around 1700
B.C. About a millennium later,
we know, Greeks borrowed the
Semitic-speaking Phoenicians'
signs to record their own lan-
guage. But do the Semitic signs
constitute an alphabet? Or was
the first alphabet invented by a
Greek man from the island of
Euboea—to record the poetry of
Homer?
54 Invoking the Spirit:
Prehistoric Religion
at Ain Ghazal
G A H Y 0 . . 1, E FSO N
Staring, enigmatic, ghostly-a
group of 8,500-year-old plaster
statues from Ain Ghazal, in
Jordan, sheds light on religious
beliefs in the Stone Age.
Departments
4 Editors' Page
6 Origins
With the millennium fast
approaching, we asked one
scholar. Just where did the idea
of the calendar come from?
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8 Field Notes
Excavate Herculaneum!
The Den ol Antiquity
Roman Holiday
Operation Stone Age
The Painted Desert
Plus: New Finds, OddiFacts
12 The Forum
The PC Virus
Why Not Return the Favor?
The Whole Shebang
40 Post Perfect
D.H. Lawrence describes how the
Etruscans' brilliantly painted
tombs, with their exuberant por-
trayals of the afterlife, inspired
his own reflections on mortality.
26 Searching for the
Historical Homer
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14 Can Archaeology Discover Homer's Troy?
BIRGIT BRANDAU
Excavations at Bronze Age Troy (1700-1180 B.C.) have revealed a
prosperous city—with a citadel protected by towering walls—that
was destroyed by fire and a war. Was this the "mighty-walled Troy"
referred to by Homer? And just who were the Trojans, anyway?
New evidence suggests they weren't Greeks.
"Despite the
overpowering heat
I enjoyed the trip to
Pompeii; if I had gone
with an archaeologist,
I would have been
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bored stiff.
-Henry Miller
The Colossus ofMaroussi
Homer's Iliad was written down
around the eighth century B.C. But is
it the product of a single poet or a
collection of oral stories haphazardly
stitched together? And is it possible
that the epic describes a war that took
place centuries earlier?
On the Cover: Heinrich Schliemam
found this hammered-gold death
mask in 1876 at Mycenae, Greece.
After announcing, in 1871, that he
hod discovered Homer's Troy,
Schliemonn scoured Greece for
evidence of Homer's kings. At
Mycenae, where Homer's
Agamemnon ruled, Schliemann
found a large grave circle (see p.
32) containing several burial shafts.
In one shaft lay three male corpses, one of which wore this mask;
when the mask was lifted from the face, the ancient skull crum-
bled into dust. Although Schliemann identified the mask as
belonging to Homer's Agamemnon, it dotes to the 16th century
B.C.-obout 300 years before Late Bronze Troy was destroyed in a
war that may be associated with Homer's Trojan War.
PREMIERE ISSUE ODYSSEY
64 Reviews
Art, Desire, and the Body
in Ancient Greece
Andrew Stewart
Life in the Ancient Near East
Daniel C. Snell
68 Destinations
Follow ancient Roman colonists
through treacherous mountain
passes to the city of Alba
Fucens-one of Italy's best-kept
archaeological secrets.
70 Authors
72 Ancient Life
The "Bikini Girls" mosaic illus-
trates the Late Roman period's
equivalent of aerobics.
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