What climate science can tell us about the lost world that inspired The Odyssey
- By the time The Odyssey was composed, the Bronze Age palace societies that helped inspire its fictional world had been gone for centuries.
- Palaces had fallen, trade networks had fractured and populations had shifted across the eastern Mediterranean.
- Now, a new climate study suggests that centuries of repeated severe drought added to the pressures on that collapsing world.
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- By the time The Odyssey was composed, the Bronze Age palace societies that helped inspire its fictional world had been gone for centuries.
- Palaces had fallen, trade networks had fractured and populations had shifted across the eastern Mediterranean.
- Now, a new climate study suggests that centuries of repeated severe drought added to the pressures on that collapsing world.
Sources: CBC