Was "Gallic wars" a text similar to the Odyssey - so, describing the Younger Dryas cataclysms?

The author draws a parallel with the Gallic war and Greek Troy:

A. T. Fomenko
"Empirico-Statistical Analysis of Narrative Material and its Applications to Historical Dating"
Volume II

http://ndl.ethernet.edu.et/bitstream/123456789/3238/1/A.T. Fomenko.pdf

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Hector - Wikipedia

In Greek mythology, Hector (/ˈhɛktər/; Ἕκτωρ, Hektōr, pronounced [héktɔːr]) was a Trojan prince, a hero, and the greatest warrior for Troy during the Trojan War. He is a major character in Homer's Iliad, where he leads the Trojans and their allies in the defense of Troy, killing countless Greek warriors. He is ultimately killed in single combat by the Greek hero Achilles, who proceeds to drag his dead body around the city of Troy behind his chariot.
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Cosmos said:
The literature about (and from) Caesar is quite extensive as well as the literature about (and from) the time and places Caesar lived/operated. So, before proposing ideas like this, I think it would be a good idea to get a firm grasp of that literature and what it likely is suggesting and how that would square with an idea of that kind.

I‘ve read a number of books on the subject, which are by far not all the material one could read about it, but from that preliminary view on the subject the idea you have presented so far seems pretty unlikely.
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Thing is that if comets condition mankind... If there is an angle, with some flags, I see it as a potential road.

You seem to indicate that one must firstly first "tap" into the Roman database, in terms of literature, and archeology (if I understand it right - I am not sure). Those will always say the same things - and it will go into the direction of today's consensus. At worse, "Caesar the imperialist". That's what those sources show and it's difficult to get out of it. Still, C's show a very different Caesar.

I would agree with the idea of gathering all sources and data possible - but the literature is kind of monolithic - and it's like a deep dive into a stable sea. Romans, roads, battles, amphitheaters, roman columns, etc. My idea will never fit with such data.

I am of course pondering the idea that Caesar did make all those battles & fights. This will be difficult to defend; I just saw something, and did not want to let an idea slip. When grossly checking about it, i cannot say that "there is nothing". But I am cautious, so thank you for your bold take :)

but from that preliminary view on the subject the idea you have presented so far seems pretty unlikely.
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But why, exactly?

Thank you!
 
Gaby said:
How much of the recommended reading have you done? Did you at least read Laura's books and Pierre's books?
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Hmm yes many of their books.

I understand that... My question was not appropriate, isn't it? I feel I should not have asked.

If I may: this was simply a request for clarification, in the sense of "something more precise".

Cosmos tells me "there are huge bodies of literature" - "I've read many of those books" - "It is unlikely that ...".

And so, he makes a bridge towards the label "it is unlikely".

What's that bridge? Could this be formulated?
 
palestine said:
Hmm yes many of their books.

I understand that... My question was not appropriate, isn't it? I feel I should not have asked.

If I may: this was simply a request for clarification, in the sense of "something more precise".

Cosmos tells me "there are huge bodies of literature" - "I've read many of those books" - "It is unlikely that ...".

And so, he makes a bridge towards the label "it is unlikely".

What's that bridge? Could this be formulated?
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Maybe you need to do a timeline? I think this is what most researchers are trying to do, but some of the conclusions they come to are incorrect because they are based on assumptions, fitting the wrong facts together, at the wrong time, or an incorrect starting point to begin with. This means that a even how they fit facts together may be incorrect. Of course we know this is a big problem within the scientific and historical community. That is why they have such difficulty 'connecting the dots' and coming to new, maybe startling conclusions. It makes them very uncomfortable.

A couple of examples discussed on the forum are: The real location of Troy - which is NOT in the Mediterranean; Venus as a comet which hasn't been there that long (less than 5000 years) and the Egyptian pyramids as being some sort of energy storage device (or an attempt at building something like that) and NOT a tomb.

It seems to me that you are trying to conflate something that happened in Caesars time with something that (most likely) happened in the past, and may have happened multiple times, as well! Is that because the author you mention is doing the same? There may be hundreds of years, even millenia separating similar events. This is the frustration that people have when wanting to research history.

I think what Cosmos is trying to tell you is that regarding Ceasars time, there is a lot of documentation. Which means a lot of data points. Before trying to connect them to other data points, you need to know if Ceasars time is the correct time to start. Most people think it isn't. This is the problem. Certain things happened multipe times in the past. These being, but are not limited to:

1. Cometary bombardments
2. Plagues
3. Conflicts/wars
4. Venus passes.

It looks like no. 4 is the only one that's no longer happening and to further complicate matters when it DID happen it had the capacity to influence and may have even influenced the other 3 in some ways.

If you have an idea, or a theory about something, then the foundation of that has to be sound and reliable. Caesars time is not the right foundation, neither is the idea that The Odyssey happened in the Mediterranian. That's just my take. This will lead to a situation where a person can be "barking up the wrong tree", especially if they started with the wrong foundational assumption.
 
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