TROY

Published to accompany a major exhibition at the British Museum, this beautifully illustrated book searches for the reality behind t he legend. It introduces the storytellers and Classical artists inspired by the original myths, and studies the stories themselves the Judgment of Paris, the trials of Odysseus and the wanderings of Aeneas. It charts the nineteenth-century search for the locatio n of Troy, assesses the excavations by Frank Calvert and Heinrich Schliemann and explores the possible Bronze Age background for the myth of ...[Read more]