Ancient/Classical History/surviving sources

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Dear Mr. Jalowski,
I am curious about surviving sources of ancient myths and legends.  What are some of the oldest "originals" for instance of Greek mythology?  Is there a good online repository where images and translations are available?

Thanks!

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Dear sir, even though my expertise lies in Mediterranean Warfare (1000 BCE-500 CE) all the way to the pike and shot colunellas or tercios (formations) from 1477-1648 CE and not mythology, I will answer this question to the best of my abilities. One of the oldest originals is the account of the Trojan War between Mycenaean suzerainty over the adjacent peripherals and palatinates of the Phocaean promontory into a multitudinous pan-Hellenic conquest. These Grecian autarchies were puissant and belliferous, and existed on constant subjugation as a normal routine of international relationships (see Karl von Klausewitz's On War) in order to survive. The Grecians consisted of 142,320 soldiers in a total of 1,186 triremes and pentekonters (ships). The multifarious ethnonyms consisted of Boeotians, Minyans, Phoceans, Locrians, Eubeoa, Athenians, men of Salamis, Lacedaemonians, Arcadians, men of Dulichium, Cephallenians, Aetolians, Cretans, Rhodians, Symians, Pelasgians, Acadians, Magnetes and Lapiths. The ethnonyms of the Troad or Trojans consisted of those autarchies found in the adjacent peripherals of Anatolia, and the Propontic autarchies (Selymbria, Perinthus and Byzantium) overlooking the Propontis and Euxine Sea. These consisted of the Trojans, Dardanians, Pelasgians, Thracians, Ciconians, Paeonians, Paphlagonians, Halizones,
Mysians, Phrygians, Maeonians, Carians, and Lycians.

As for the second interstices of your question, a satisfactory online repository would be at:

www.literaturepage.com/read/theiliad.html

Thank you for the question,

                    Conrad Jalowski

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The First Athenian Hegemony: 478-404 BCE, the Second Athenian Hegemony: 378-355 BCE, the Peloponnesian War: 431-404 BCE, the Theban Hegemony (Epaminondas): 371-362 BCE, Hellenistic History: 335-30 BCE, the Roman Principate: 27 BCE-235 CE, the Roman "Barracks Period": 235-284 CE, the Roman Dominate: 284-395 CE, the Gallic Empire: 260-274 CE, the Palmyrene Empire: 260-273 CE, the Britannic Empire: 286-297 CE, the Illyrian Emperors: 268-284 CE, the Occidental Roman Empire: 395-476 CE, the Oriental Roman Empire (Early Byzantine Period): 330-802 CE, the Byzantine Empire (Middle Byzantine Period): 802-1204 CE, the Byzantine Empire (Late Byzantine Period): 1204-1453 CE, the Carolingian Frankish Empire under Charlemagne: 768-814 CE

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I am an assiduous student of Greek, Hellenistic, Roman, Byzantine, Medieval and Italian Renaissance history with an in-depth comprehension of Platonic, Aristotelian, Hellenistic (Stoicism, Epicureanism, Skepticism and Cynicism) and Ciceronian philosophy. My passions in the fields of philosophy and history converge in late antique Mediterranean culture (200-650/750 CE). My area of greatest interest spans from the collapse of the Roman Principate in 235 CE and extends to the Mussulman invasions of the Mediterranean. Particular topics within the period of Late Antiquity include the Gallienic Renaissance and the cultivation of Neoplatonism (253-268), the Diocletianic Tetrarchy (293-313), the collapse of the Occidental Roman Empire (476 CE), the reigns of Maurice Tiberius (582-602) and Flavius Heraclius Augustus (610-641) and the Byzantine-Sassanid War (602-628).

Publications
-(The Molloy College Student Literary Magazine): A short analysis on Niccolo Machiavelli's republican treatise titled "Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livy".

Education/Credentials
-(Molloy College Undergraduate Philosophy Conference) Despotism in Greek and Roman Political Theory: http://www.facebook.com/events/176699492365438/

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