The Trojan War: A New History.(Book review)

The Historian | March 22, 2009| | Copyright

The Trojan War: A New History. By Barry Strauss. (New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, 2007. Pp. xxii, 258. $26.00.)

According to the publisher's announcement, this book is the first full military history of the Trojan War, a striking claim for a topic that was long thought to belong to a "fabulous age of Greece which must have no place in history" (2) and continues to provoke furor. On 25 February 2003, The Times (of London) reported that "A NEW Trojan war ... has broken out among archaeologists over the size of the fabled city of Homer's Iliad." Although "fabled," ...

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