From: Dean Snyder (dean.snyder@jhu.edu)
Date: Wed May 05 2004 - 13:58:01 CDT
Peter Kirk wrote at 9:31 AM on Wednesday, May 5, 2004:
>On 04/05/2004 14:44, Dean Snyder wrote:
>
>>2 Greeks are better sailors.
>
>Your other reasons are good, but this one seems dubious. The Phoenicians
>dominated the Mediterranean, and the Greeks got a look in only when the
>Phoenicians declined, surely? And the Greek never got as far as England,
>at least not until the Romans did. Way off topic, of course.
It was a troll.
Respectfully,
Dean A. Snyder
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Manager, Digital Hammurabi Project
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