Troy and Homer: Towards a Solution of an Old Mystery.(Book review)

The Journal of the American Oriental Society | July 1, 2005| | Copyright

Troy and Homer: Towards a Solution of an Old Mystery. By JOACHIM LATACZ. Tr. Kevin Windle and Rosh Ireland. Oxford: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2004. Pp. xix + 342, illus. $45.

Jaan Puhvel's 1991 pamphlet Homer and Hittite--one of many relevant works that the author of Troy and Homer does not cite--ends with the words, "Homer is too important to be left to single-track hellenists" (1); similarly, of course, Troy is too important to be left to Anatolian archaeologists. Joachim Latacz, a specialist in Homer, has for many years been a particularly vigorous proponent of the ...

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