β Rick Royster
π Fiction
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2019
π English
β 138 KB
π 1 views
β¦ LIBER β¦
The Trojan War
β Scribed by Barry Strauss
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 618 KB
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
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 archeological research, historian and classicist Barry Strauss explains what really happened in Troy more than 3,000 years ago.
For many years it was thought that Troy was an insignificant place that never had a chance against the Greek warriors who laid siege and overwhelmed the city. In the old view, the conflict was decided by duels between champions on the plain of Troy. Today we know that Troy was indeed a large and prosperous city, just as Homer said. The Trojans themselves were not Greeks but vassals of the powerful Hittite Empire to the east in modern-day Turkey, and they probably spoke a Hittite-related language called Luwian. The Trojan War was most likely the culminatio...
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