Book Reviews: Barry Strauss,The Trojan War: A New History(New York: Simon & Schuster, 2006), XXVIII + 258 pp.

The Trojan War: A New History

✍ Strauss, Barry 📂 Fiction 📅 2006 🏛 Simon & Schuster 🌐 English ⚖ 1 MB

The Trojan War is the most famous conflict in history, the subject of Homer's *Iliad*, one of the cornerstones of Western literature. Although many readers know that this literary masterwork is based on actual events, there is disagreement about how much of Homer's tale is true. Drawing on recent ar

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📂 Article 📅 2011 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 40 KB

This book, described as the first work to provide a critical synthesis of over a century of comparative expertise, knowledge, and understanding of diverse sexual forms, clearly does so in an entertaining way. With chapters entitled "Sexual Advances," "Beautiful Bodies," "Dancing Desires," "Erotic Ec