Troy and Homer: Towards a Solution of an Old Mystery

by Joachim Latacz

Book Overview

In this book Joachim Latacz turns the spotlight of modern research on the much-debated question of whether the wealthy city of Troy described by Homer in the Iliad was a poetic fiction or a memory of historical reality.

Earlier excavations at the hill of Hisarlik, in Turkey, on the Dardanelles, brought no answer, but in 1988 a new archaeological enterprise, under the direction of Manfred Korfmann, led to a radical shift in understanding. Latacz,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199263086
• ISBN13: 9780199263080
• Release Date: February 2005
• Publisher: OUP Oxford
• Length: 362 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.8" x 8.7"