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Homer & history.(The Trojan War: A New History)(Book review)
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Barry Strauss The Trojan War: A New History. Simon & Schuster, 288 pages, $26
Somewhere around 1200 B.C. a group of Greek raiders attacked a prominent Hittite town in northern Asia Minor. After a prolonged siege, they sacked Troy and left. Shortly after returning to the Greek mainland, the victors saw their own cities suffer a similarly catastrophic destruction.
That's about all we surmise with any certainty about the great Trojan War and its aftermath--the most famous but least known of ancient Greek conflicts, one that predated the well-recorded Persian ...
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