by Barry S. Strauss
Read side by side with The Iliad it's a really good companion to the epic tale. It's a wonderful guide to get an introduction to the characters, the civilization of the Bronze Age and if this Trojan War really happened. Strauss has put together the archaeological data, the historical and anthropolo...
Thought this would give me more historical info on the actual Trojan War. Turns out we don't know enough to fill a book, so a lot of this is padded out by a blow-by-blow retelling of the Iliad, which I definitely didn't need. Pretty lame.
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