Dear Bingley:manuscripts were printed by hand. I wonder when the earliest manuscripts of the Odyssey were made.
I found some archaeology sites indicating that the Etruscans
arrived in Italy fairly close to time accepted for Trojan war. I still think the Trojan war story is a bunch of baloney. There is evidence of a series of cities there having been destroyed and rebuilt. It was in a location to profit as a safe harbor and supply point for trading ships. And capable of accumulating wealth enough to invite attacks, and prompt rebuilding, until its channel and harbor
got silted in.And maybe terrain uplifted as well. It is now a couple miles from the water.