The Trojan War : A New History (Paperback)

from waltzmn

Arguments about whether the Trojan War actually happened may well predate Homer. Certainly they predate any existing copies of Homer, since Thucydides had trenchant comments on just what might or might not have happened. This book isn't one of those arguments; it accepts the Trojan War as real. I...

from pjskimin

This book was not what I expected. I thought it would focus on archeological evidence as a support for the existence of Troy. Instead the author asks us to imagine what a real battle at Troy would have been like. He does this by comparing events in The Iliad with practices and events from other b...

from ClifSven

I found this book to be tedious. As far as I could tell there was no new "history" at all, merely a great deal of speculation on the author's part. And with very little to back up his opinion. He left a great deal of the social aspects of this story out - specifically those he obviously does not ...

from Beezie

Accessible, if a bit light. This is the perfect airport companion.