The War That Killed Achilles: The True Story of Homer's Iliad and the Trojan War by Caroline Alexander

The War That Killed Achilles: The True Story of Homer's Iliad and the Trojan War

Caroline Alexander

missing duration info Add in missing duration information first pub 2009 (editions)

nonfiction classics history challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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The dramatic events of the Trojan War are legend—but Homer’s epic poem, Iliad, is devoted entirely to a few mundane weeks at the end of a debilitating, waning ten-year campaign. The story’s focus is not on drama but on a bitter truth: both armies ...

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