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: 9780786472291

ISBN-10: 0786472294

ISBN-13: 9780786472291

Edition: 2nd 2013 (Revised)

Authors: Diane P. Thompson

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The Trojan War occurred more than 3,000 years ago. Since then, starting with Homer's epics, people have been writing, painting, sculpting and creating music about this event and its participants. This book starts with an overview of the Bronze Age when the Trojan War occurred, and then follows a selection of the major literature about this war from Homer down through the ages and on to the Internet. Each retelling of the Troy story is discussed in its historical context and includes a synopsis of the story itself, because the ways of telling this story change over time. The main versions considered include: Homer's Iliad and Odyssey; a selection of Classical Greek Dramas (especially…

Book details

List price: $29.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
Publication date: 6/24/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 236
Size: 7.00" wide x 10.00" long x 0.47" tall
Weight: 0.946



Preface


Introduction



Bronze Age Mycenae, Anatolia and Troy: The 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 ï¿½ Controlling the Past



Euripidesï¿½ 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 Achillï¿½s: Troy as Romance



Guido delle Colonna's Historia Destructions Troiae: Fate, Fortune, Demons and the Resdess Heart



Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde: The Christian Synthesis



Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida: Human Beings Alone



Improving Iphigenia: Racine and Goethe Modernize Evil



James Joyce's Ulysses: A Mind Trip



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



The Tradition Continues: Troy in the Media and Popular Culture


Chapter Notes


Works Cited


Index