Quote Originally Posted by Fisherking View Post
One obvious trouble with that scenario is Celtic Social Laws. Helen would have just divorced the guy and gone off with Paris. No muss no fuss. She could have even slept with him while married without it being a big to-do. No reason for a world war if it were Celtic Tribes.

I don’t know much about the Authors or their research in Geography but in the Celtic world view these things make no sense.

It is just an Englishman trying to say that his capital city is Troy in my view.
The thing is, there is no Helen, and there is no Paris. The Trojan War was all about tin, for making bronze. The war was about resources.

Another thing that is quite interesting, is the sentence, "The face that launched a thousand ships."

Since when was Sparta a naval power? They never had a navy, even though they had admirals in the Persian War. But these admirals were on Athenian ships, because Athens wanted to be on good terms with Sparta during the Persian War. They are strictly a military state. And, according to Homer's Iliad, Troy was sacked and looted. Sparta didn't care for jewels, or gold or anything. Their currency was iron bars, to prevent theft. Spartan people were... well, spartan. That's where that word came from. They had no interests in any superficial items. They were prosperous, but only because of slavery of the Helots.