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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. The ways of telling the story change over time. The main versions considered include Homer's Iliad and Odyssey; a selection of Classical Greek Dramas (especially Iphigenia at Aulis); Virgil's Aeneid; Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde; Guido delle Colonne's History of the Destruction of Troy; Racine's Iphigenia (at Aulis); Goethe's Iphigenia in Tauris; Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida; Joyce's Ulysses; and two feminist Troy novels, Sheri Tepper's The Gate to Women's Country and Marion Zimmer Bradley's The Firebrand.
Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.
Contents
Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction
1. Bronze Age Mycenae, Anatolia and Troy: The Archaeological Evidence
2. Oral Poetry and the Troy Cycle
3. Homer's Iliad: The War at Troy
4. Homer's Odyssey: The Long Journey Home
5. Aeschylus' Agamemnon: Dead Heroes and Wild Women—Controlling the Past
6. Euripides' Two Iphigenia Plays: Human Sacrifice and Resolution
7. Virgil's Aeneid: Roman Transformation of Homeric Myth
8. Transmission of Troy Stories to the Middle Ages
9. Love Redeems Eneas; Love Destroys Achillès: Troy as Romance
10. Guido delle Colonna's Historia Destructionis Troiae: Fate, Fortune, Demons and the Restless Heart
11. Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde: The Christian Synthesis
12. Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida: Human Beings Alone
13. Improving Iphigenia: Racine and Goethe Modernize Evil
14. James Joyce's Ulysses: A Mind Trip
15. The Firebrand and The Gate to Women's Country: Women Revise the Trojan Past
16. The Tradition Continues: Troy in the Media and Popular Culture
Chapter Notes
Works Cited
Index
