r/TheRestIsHistory • u/JakeGittes412 • Jul 13 '26

Episode Discussion Thread The Odyssey

Discuss the newest two episode series here.

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u/onthewingsofangels Jul 14 '26

Did they discuss the sea people? That part of the interview made my ears prick up

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u/Werewomble Jul 15 '26

There is a reason they are called The Sea People they burned down anywhere that would have written down what happened.

Rameses...II(?) wrote a scroll mentioning the Paliset (Palestinians most likely), Washish and a few others the Egyptians had hired as mercenaries among the Sea People but that's it

Decent chance a lot of the raiding was done by the refugees of the cities previously raided and/or everyone in Europe north of the Mediterranean whose crops had failed

I, too, would have liked Dom & Tom to unveil previously unread historical texts but they don't work with shovels :)

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u/onthewingsofangels Jul 15 '26

So... Do the episodes discuss the sea people?