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spacestationtrustfund's review
3.0
My academic focus (at least for a time) was the reception, interpretation, and adaptation of Homeric canon in the pre-Imperial era, which is a long-winded and pretentious way of saying that I mostly read a lot of Euripides, but this particular book has lived on my bookshelf for well over a decade at this point. The book suffers from the drawbacks of linear time, namely that more recent scholarship has further advanced the particular area of study, but its publication in the mid-1970s means that the decryption of Linear B had already occurred. The analysis of Hittite sources forms a good percentage of Page's book, so this was certainly serendipitous; radiocarbon dating has advanced significantly (despite having been initially developed in the 1940s), new archaeological technology has opened doors to physical discoveries regarding Troy's location, and Schliemann is widely frowned upon in legitimate academic circles. But Page was on to something, and that's not small feat: he earned his laurels.
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