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[izgo-nGo b.c.] The Sack of Troy 337

ships assembled at Aulis waiting for a favorable wind to sail
against Troy.

THE CRETAN TRADITION OF VASE PAINTING LIVES ON AMONG THE
ACHAEANS, BUT THE FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION IS GONE. COMPARE
WITH PAGE 238 THIS MYCENAEAN VASE FROM THE ISLAND OF RHODES.

This chapter is an attempt to make a coherent whole out of
a series of dischoate events. A lot of very revolutionary occur­
rences take place during this lifetime: the Hittite empire is

destroyed, and Hattusas, its capital, burnt, by persons unknown;
the Philistines replace the Canaanites as the dominant power
on the Palestinian coast; Egypt suffers its most serious invasions
since the Hyksos, a series of inroads of wandering nations whom
the pharaohs call the people of the sea. And of course there is
the Trojan War, traditionally dated by the Greeks to 1193-
83 b.c.—and archaeology agrees with them.