"If the dates computed by Greek scholars for the fall of Troy (ranging from 1334 to 1127 with 1183 [BC] the most popular) were approximately correct, it was largely by luck for the genealogies, by which those scholars bridged the Dark Age were “heraldically” linked up with the names of epic heroes and the sons of Helen…Those of the kings of Sparta seem to have enough authentic generations to take us back to about the 9th century [BC] and thence…joined up to their heroic ancestor Herakles and to do it their earlier generations are given the improbably long average lengths of 39 years; Spartan reigns in historic times average about 25… Greek tradition may be perfectly right in saying that in the second generation after the siege of Troy, the heroic dynasties fell."
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A. R. Burn, 1966, The Pelican History of Greece , quoted in : Nick Collins - How Maritime Trade and the Indian Subcontinent Shaped the World (2022)
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