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The Trojan War: A New History

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Homer sung of the fall of Troy some five centuries after the supposed event. Thirty centuries later the tale has become a timeless one, but interpreted variously over the generations. Barry Strauss argues that many of the non-supernatural events and actors in Homer's tale plausibly existed. For those that like to draw a thick barrier between legend and history, Strauss throws down a gauntlet...

 

...read the full review of The Trojan War: A New History by Barry Strauss

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Here's an article I came across a couple of days ago about the discovery of a temple and citadel from the early Iron Age in Turkey. They would have been near contemporaries of "Troy" and seem to have had the same fate i.e. destruction by fire.

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