Using a combination of archaeological data, textual analysis, and ancient documents, this Very Short Introduction to the Trojan War investigates whether or not the war actually took place, whether archaeologists have correctly identified and been excavating the ancient site of Troy, and what has been found there.
Using a combination of archaeological data, textual analysis, and ancient documents, this Very Short Introduction to the Trojan War investigates whether or not the war actually took place, whether archaeologists have correctly identified and been excavating the ancient site of Troy, and what has been found there.
Chair, Department of Classical and Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations; professor of classics, Anthropology, and History; director, Capitol Archaeological Institute, The George Washington University. Author, Biblical Archaeology: A Very Short Introduction (OUP, 2009), winner of the 2011 Biblical Aracheology Society Publication Award for the Best Popular Book on Archaeology; editor, The Oxford Handbook of the Bronze Age Aegean (forthcoming) et al.
Inhaltsangabe
List of illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction Part I. The Trojan War 1 The story according to the Iliad, the Odyssey, and the Epic Cycle 2 The war in historical context: Mycenaeans, Hittites, Trojans, and Sea Peoples Part II. Investigating the Literary Evidence 3 Homeric questions: Did Homer exist and is the Iliad accurate? 4 The Hittite texts: Assuwa, Ahhiyawa, and Alaksandu of Wilusa Part III. Investigating the archaeological evidence 5 Early excavators: Heinrich Schliemann and Wilhelm Dörpfeld 6 Returning to Hisarlik: Carl Blegen and Manfred Korfmann Epilogue Glossary: Characters and Places References Further reading Index
List of illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction Part I. The Trojan War 1 The story according to the Iliad, the Odyssey, and the Epic Cycle 2 The war in historical context: Mycenaeans, Hittites, Trojans, and Sea Peoples Part II. Investigating the Literary Evidence 3 Homeric questions: Did Homer exist and is the Iliad accurate? 4 The Hittite texts: Assuwa, Ahhiyawa, and Alaksandu of Wilusa Part III. Investigating the archaeological evidence 5 Early excavators: Heinrich Schliemann and Wilhelm Dörpfeld 6 Returning to Hisarlik: Carl Blegen and Manfred Korfmann Epilogue Glossary: Characters and Places References Further reading Index
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