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The Mythology of Ancient Greece: A World of Gods and Monsters
A guide to the Olympian gods, the Titans who came before them and the monsters of Greek myth, and to which deity held which domain in the divine family.
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Greek Myth and the Trojan War
Gods, monsters, Homeric epic and the long debate over whether Troy fell as the poems say.
The Epic Story of the Trojan War
A step-by-step retelling of the Trojan War as the Greek poets tell it, from the judgment of Paris and Aulis through the Iliad to the wooden horse.
The Epic Story of the Trojan War: A Tale of Heroism and Tragedy
A character study of Achilles, Hector and Priam in the Iliad, and of the themes of honour, grief and fate that make the Trojan War a tragedy.
The Epic Story of the Trojan War: Fact or Fiction?
What archaeology and Hittite texts about Wilusa suggest about a real Late Bronze Age conflict near Troy, and why a ten-year Greek siege remains unproven.
The Mysterious World of Ancient Greek Mythology
How Greek myths lived in cult, festivals and storytelling, and how scholars from antiquity to today have tried to explain where the stories came from.
The Story of the Epic of Aeneas: A Roman Treasure
Virgil's Aeneid as a Roman poem: its Trojan hero, the founding of Latin descent, its twelve books and its place in the ideology of Augustus.
The Story of the War of Troy: Fact or Fiction?
How scholars have argued about Homer as history, from Schliemann and Moses Finley to Milman Parry's oral-formula theory and the modern middle ground.
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