Trojan War Literature and Legends from the Bronze Age to the Present

Name: Trojan War Literature and Legends from the Bronze Age to the Present
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ISBN: 9780786417377

ISBN-10: 0786417374

ISBN-13: 9780786417377

Edition: 2004

Authors: Diane P. Thompson

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Description:

This survey of selected works, designed for students and general readers with an interest in the Trojan war, Greek mythology and the ancient tradition of Troy stories, provides a background that should help readers to recognize and appreciate the ancient, unbroken and recreated tradition.

Book details

List price: $35.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
Publication date: 1/6/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 248
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English



Preface


Introduction



Bronze Age Mycenae and Troy: Archaeological Evidence



Oral Poetry and the Troy Cycle



Homer's Iliad: The War at Troy



Homer's Odyssey: The Long Journey Home



Aeschylus' Agamemnon: Dead Heroes and Wild Women--Controlling the Past



Euripides' Two Iphigenia Plays: Human Sacrifice and Resolution



Virgil's Aeneid: Roman Transformation of Homeric Myth



Transmission of Troy Stories to the Middle Ages



Love Redeems Eneas; Love Destroys Achilles: Troy as Romance



Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde: The Christian Synthesis



Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida: Human Beings Alone



Improving Iphigenia: Racine and Goethe Modernize Evil



The Firebrand and The Gate to Women's Country: Women Revise the Trojan Past



The Tradition Continues: Troy in the Twentieth Century and Beyond


Notes


Works Cited


Index