The War That Killed Achilles: The True Story of Homer's Iliad and the Trojan War
Whether we regard them as pure myth or history creatively reshaped, the events of the Trojan War are part of our cultural heritage; but don't think for one moment that Homer's epic Iliad attempts to recount the ebb and flow of that ten-year conflict of civilizations. Instead, as Caroline...
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Whether we regard them as pure myth or history creatively reshaped, the events of the Trojan War are part of our cultural heritage; but don't think for one moment that Homer's epic Iliad attempts to recount the ebb and flow of that ten-year conflict of civilizations. Instead, as Caroline Alexander demonstrates in this new book, Homer approached the field of battle and death through the moral dilemma of one man and, by doing so, raised the most essential questions about human behavior. Piercing insights about a literary classic; now in paperback.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780143118268 (0143118269)
Publish date: September 28th 2010
Publisher: Penguin
Pages no: 320
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Classics,
Non Fiction,
Writing,
History,
Literature,
Cultural,
Criticism,
Literary Criticism,
Books About Books,
War,
Military,
Greece,
Ancient,
World History,
Mythology
TITLE: The War That Killed Achilles: The True Story of Homer's Iliad and the Trojan War AUTHOR: Caroline Alexander DATE PUBLISHED: 2010 FORMAT: Paperback ISBN-13: 9780143118268 _______________________ DESCRIPTION: "WHAT ARE THE REAL LESSONS OF WAR?The Illiad is celebrated as one of t...
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