"From the Booker Prize-winning author of the Regeneration trilogy comes a monumental new masterpiece, set in the midst of literature's most famous war. Pat Barker turns her attention to the timeless legend of The Iliad, as experienced by the captured women living in the Greek ca…
Prologue -- Troy and Carthage in the nineteenth century -- Homeric pilgrimage, topography and archaeology -- The Trojan War at the circus -- The Iliad and Aeneid burlesqued -- Carthage and future ruins -- Epilogue: Troy and Carthage as "a beacon and a warning
"The ancient city of Troy really existed. The Trojan War that figures in Homer's two great epic poems, The Iliad and The Odyssey, really happened. But there is much more to it. Leave it to one of the English language's greatest practitioners, Robert Graves, to flesh out the stor…
[This book] is [an] account of the society that gave birth to the Iliad and the Odyssey - a book that provides a ... picture of the Greek Dark Ages, its men and women, works and days, morals and values. [This book is] a fundamental companion for students of Homer and Homeric Gre…
The world of Odysseus
by Finley, Moses I., Knox, Bernard (
fromNew York Review Books classics
"The World of Odysseus is a concise and penetrating account of the society that gave birth to the Iliad and the Odyssey - a book that provides a vivid picture of the Greek Dark Ages, its men and women, works and days, morals and values."--Jacket.
