evidence has been discovered that shows this theory is unreasonable. Woods never mentions any of this information or anything in opposition to his own beliefs, but allows viewers to see testimony from those in sync with his own ideas.Immanuel Velikovsky, author of Peoples of the Sea, asserts that, “…Ramses the III lived 800 years later; that the events in question took place in the first part of the fourth century before the present era; and that the Peoples of the Sea were Greek mercenaries and the Pereset were Persians” (225). He supports this statement when he writes, “The helmet, the tunics, the corselets, the swords, the targets, the spears are those of Greek mercenaries in Persian service in the fourth century”(56). If this is true, then they can not be the “Sea Peoples” Maspero and Woods are describing. Here is another conflict in the “Sea Peoples” theory that Woods fails to mention. Velikovsky gives evidence on page fifty-five, when he writes that, the peoples of the sea, like the Perset were beardless. The Homeric heroes were bearded with the exception of Achilles; Therefore, they must be from an earlier time-period than believed. The Greeks of the fourth and fifth century shaved their faces. The final opinion Wood overlooked is that the “Sea Peoples” maybe a conglomeration of tribes or a confederation of nations. Woods provided the viewer with sufficient information to maintain his hypothesis but failed to represent those in contrast that also have adequate evidence. Woods based his research on Homer’s The Iliad, a book that has not been proven completely factual. It is based on the war, but it is unknown the number of embellishments placed upon the events contained. The Iliad must be based on oral tradition because during the Dark Age, a time during which no literary works were produced. Bards told this story to entertain aristocracy, it was...
