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never having seen a chariot fight in a battle,
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so that's the outcome. Finley, particularly,
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makes a lot of this as being rather indicative
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of how he pictures the poems to work. There are sort of
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legitimate memories, some of them going way back to the Mycenaean period,
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but which may be misremembered in some significant detail.
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And then, of course, there's lots of stuff that
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doesn't have anything to do with the Mycenaean period.
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His view is much, if not most,
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of what we are told about the Homeric world comes, as he says,
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in the tenth and in the ninth centuries.
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One other thing that he doesn't mention but I think is worth mentioning.