"Now, that's a treasure horde!" Topic
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 Parzival  | 29 Jun 2015 8:19 p.m. PST |
The Parthenon may have held millions of silver coins… In the attic! link "Look, Demetrius, someone has left another gift on the altar."
"Hades' horns, more silver? Well, shove it in the attic. What do they think we're gonna do with all this-- fund a war with Sparta?" |
| Twilight Samurai | 29 Jun 2015 8:50 p.m. PST |
Compared to today, a sixty Euro withdrawal limit at ATM's and rather than the attic, a lot of mattress stuffing. |
| GurKhan | 30 Jun 2015 2:11 a.m. PST |
Nice find. I'm surprised the writer avoided the obvious Attic/attic pun, though. |
| Ivan DBA | 30 Jun 2015 3:00 a.m. PST |
It would have taken a horde to carry off that hoard. |
| Parzival | 30 Jun 2015 5:58 a.m. PST |
Arrrgghhh! I should have seen that! Bitten by the homonym hydra. Again. |
| DS6151 | 30 Jun 2015 10:21 a.m. PST |
Ah, it "may have" held coins. Because there are no sources that say it did, so that's a reason it "may have". The Sea People "may have" stored vast amounts of marmalade on one of the Aleutian Islands. Because there's nothing to suggest they did, so they must have. Modern journalism and "research" is so much more fun than the real stuff! |
| Ivan DBA | 30 Jun 2015 10:28 a.m. PST |
Sorry Parzival, it happens to the best of us, but I couldn't resist… |
| Dan 055 | 30 Jun 2015 3:47 p.m. PST |
I like how DS6151 puts it. So now we know what happened to all those "mythical" Greek creatures. They "may" have hidden them in the attic. |
| Benvartok | 30 Jun 2015 5:36 p.m. PST |
Wonder if this will make the UK TV show…..Cash in the Attic? So sorry…… |
| EvilBen | 01 Jul 2015 10:52 a.m. PST |
@DS6151: I heard Prof. Pope give a paper on this very topic only a couple of months ago; that paper was well-received by a knowledgeable audience. Whether or not he's right, this work is absolutely 'proper' research (involving quite extensive knowledge of both literary and archaeological sources), albeit a very minor project of his; as someone whose own work focusses on ancient Greek economic history and classical Athens myself, I am also inclined to think that he may well be right. An important difference between what he is suggesting and your Sea Peoples' marmalade example is that we know that the Athenians did store very large quantities of coined silver somewhere (and surely somewhere secure) on the acropolis; whereas there is no evidence that the 'Sea Peoples' (whoever they were) had marmalade, or that they ever went to the Aleutian Islands (and obviously it is profoundly unlikely that they would have), let alone stored anything there. Apologies for being rather humourless, but I feel I want to stand up for my colleague… |
| Parzival | 01 Jul 2015 5:11 p.m. PST |
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