Writers and Re-Writers of First Millennium History
Trevor Palmer
Introduction
There is a long tradition of challenging conventional views about the chronology of theancientworld. In 1728,
Isaac Newton argued, in his Introduction toThe Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms Amended, that Eratosthenes, in
the 3rdcentury BC, followed by Apollodorus a century later and then others, had given impossibly high generation
times in interpreting genealogical lists supposedly linking rulers of the Classical Period of Greece to ones of the
Mycenaean Period, which had ended around the time of the Trojan War. InNewton’srevised scheme, using, as
his base-point, the conquest of the Achaemenid Persians by Alexander the Great in 331 BC, he dated the fall of
Troy to 904 BC, almost 300 years later than the date indicated by Eratosthenes, and the one generally supposed
by scholars of the present day. The current justification for a date in the twelfth century BC was provided by
William Flinders Petrie around the end of the 19thcentury. Petrie demonstrated linkages between Mycenaean
pottery and pottery of the New Kingdom of Egypt, so was able to date the Mycenean Period on the basis of the
conventional chronology of Egypt, believed to have been firmly established. This resulted in the insertion into
Greek history of a Dark Age several centuries long, for which there was little or no direct evidence.
There is a long tradition of challenging conventional views about the chronology of theancientworld. In 1728,
Isaac Newton argued, in his Introduction toThe Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms Amended, that Eratosthenes, in
the 3rdcentury BC, followed by Apollodorus a century later and then others, had given impossibly high generation
times in interpreting genealogical lists supposedly linking rulers of the Classical Period of Greece to ones of the
Mycenaean Period, which had ended around the time of the Trojan War. InNewton’srevised scheme, using, as
his base-point, the conquest of the Achaemenid Persians by Alexander the Great in 331 BC, he dated the fall of
Troy to 904 BC, almost 300 years later than the date indicated by Eratosthenes, and the one generally supposed
by scholars of the present day. The current justification for a date in the twelfth century BC was provided by
William Flinders Petrie around the end of the 19thcentury. Petrie demonstrated linkages between Mycenaean
pottery and pottery of the New Kingdom of Egypt, so was able to date the Mycenean Period on the basis of the
conventional chronology of Egypt, believed to have been firmly established. This resulted in the insertion into
Greek history of a Dark Age several centuries long, for which there was little or no direct evidence.
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