"Barry Strauss’ excellent The Trojan War using conventional chronology, warns the reader that ‘most dating is relative and approximate rather than absolute.’"
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Barry Strauss in: Nick Collins - How Maritime Trade and the Indian Subcontinent Shaped the World (2022)
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