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This would be a drive by killing,
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but then when he really gets to where the action is he hops off--
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now we're going to have some fighting. And so,
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the implication I think is that the memory of chariot warfare
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back in the Mycenaean days lingered; it was captured in the poetry
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that goes back--the bits of the poetry that goes back
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to the Mycenaean period.
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But how they were used was forgotten,
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and so the poets in the subsequent years then thought,
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"How would I use a chariot?"--
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never having seen a chariot fight in a battle,
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so that's the outcome. Finley, particularly,