I'm sure you have read the breaking news about the pair of human skeletons ~ do you actually believe they're Romeo and Juliet?
Personally, I don't think they're Romeo and Juliet -- Shakespeare writing were based on fantasy, not history. Am I right? ;)
2007-02-12 20:58:28 · 9 answers · asked by PossumNight 3 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
They were stone-age people. And right now, it is pretty hard to determine much about them except that they were evidently close.
Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare's romance) is a fiction, a play set in Reneaissance Italy ... that's only five or six hundred years ago, not the 10,000 years that the archaeologists are guessing for this couple.
So, no, they were not Romiette and Julio, but perhaps they were a couple. Or perhaps they were sacrificed together to some fertility deity. Or perhaps they were brother and sister. Or perhaps they were dad and daughter or mom and son. Or perhaps the guy died and the gal got snuffed to accompany him to the afterlife. Or vice versa.
Remember, these two didn't put themselves in that position ... they were posed by whoever buried them.
Calling the two Romeo and Juliette sounds cute, and the find is pretty neat. But don't go wild just because the corpses were found exchanging a hug.
2007-02-12 22:32:36 · answer #1 · answered by Grendle 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
No, i do not believe they were Romeo and Juliet. All the article said, was they could of been a Romeo and Juliet, two starcrossed lovers. However I also agreed with the rest of the article I read, and that they were more likely sacrificed or injured.
2007-02-13 05:10:23 · answer #2 · answered by Gemma. 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I agree Romeo and Juliet are fiction characters who doesn't exists in the world.
2007-02-13 05:08:20 · answer #3 · answered by LemonPro 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Maybe its the romantic in me, when i saw the news, and the way they held each other I thought Romeo and Juliet, but. Who ever they were what a way to go.
2007-02-13 05:19:00 · answer #4 · answered by MsJacqui 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Those two young lover's really existed. I've been in Juliet's house (La casa di Giulietta) in Verona, Italy. Shakespeare just wrote down their story. But those two skeletons could have been anyone's.
2007-02-13 05:03:40 · answer #5 · answered by Barbara V 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Probably not. Remember Juliet died earlier, but CNN said that the male died earlier, and the woman was probably sacrificed
Hope this helps!
2007-02-13 05:07:24 · answer #6 · answered by arrowedsword 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
they have axe and weapons in the prehistoric time with them.. so they can't be romeo and juliet... they can be siblings that was being offered for sacrifice rituals...?
2007-02-13 06:41:51 · answer #7 · answered by devoutest_detoxification 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
This discovery is something like a proof that love can conquer time. They died together,they remain together forever....We can say love is eternal...
2007-02-13 05:23:34 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
No I think they definitely weren't!
2007-02-13 06:38:43 · answer #9 · answered by Nikita21 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋