We have the Trojan Wars. The Hittites are invading Asia Minor, modern day Turkey to the north.

有特洛伊战争，希泰人侵略了小亚细亚，也就是现在的土尔其以北地区。

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The Iliad,which is about a war, immediately is a kind of an artificial society put together for the purpose of defeating the Trojans and taking their city.

伊利亚特 》,作为描述战争的史诗,直接就是一个集合的虚构社会,目的是为了击败特洛伊人并占有他们的城邦

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So, what you have to imagine is sometime back, I would argue, in the Mycenaean Period, somebody began making up one of these songs, telling the story of Greeks going to attack the city of Troy.

所以,你们想象一下在过去的某时,我当然是说在迈锡尼文明时期,有人开始创作这些诗歌中的某一首,它描述了希腊人攻打特洛伊的故事

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