Troy and Homer: Towards a Solution of an Old Mystery (Hardback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for Troy and Homer The ancient Greek poet Homer tells of the wealthy city of Troy and its defeat in the Trojan War. Since the classical period there has been much debate about whether this is a poetic fiction or a memory of historical reality. This book shows how research has shed light on what is known about Troy and the Trojan War.
Full description- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- Published: 03 February 2005
- Format: Hardback 368 pages
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- Categories: Linguistics | Literary Studies: Classical, Early & Medieval | Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers | Classical History / Classical Civilisation
- ISBN 13: 9780199263080 ISBN 10: 0199263086
- Sales rank: 840,470
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Full description for Troy and Homer
In this book Joachim Latacz turns the spotlight of modern research on the much-debated question of whether the wealthy city of Troy described by Homer in the Iliad was a poetic fiction or a memory of historical reality. Earlier excavations at the hill of Hisarlik, in Turkey, on the Dardanelles, brought no answer, but in 1988 a new archaeological enterprise, under the direction of Manfred Korfmann, led to a radical shift in understanding. Latacz, one of Korfmann's closest collaborators, traces the course of these excavations, and the renewed investigation of the imperial Hittite archives they have inspired. As he demonstrates, it is now clear that the background against which the plot of the Iliad is acted out is the historical reality of the thirteenth century BC. The Troy story as a whole must have arisen in this period, and we can detect traces of it in Homer's great poem.
