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that is to say what we call the Dark Ages."
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Anthony Andrews says,
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"It may be that the epic tradition had at some stage
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used as a model for the army before Troy,
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an idealized version of some of
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those bands of colonists who settled the coast of
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Asia Minor in post-Mycenaean times."
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And if you look at the whole story that he tells,
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that really means quite soon after the fall of the Mycenaean world,
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probably maybe a century earlier than what Finley suggests.
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And then A.M. Snodgrass says,
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"I offer this as a further argument against the existence