Homer’s Iliad and the Trojan War

In this new volume, Jan Haywood and Naoíse Mac Sweeney investigate the position of Homer''s Iliad within the wider Trojan War tradition through a series of detailed case studies. From ancient Mesopotamia to twenty-first century America, these examples are drawn from a range of historical and cultural contexts; and from Athenian pot paintings to twelfth-century German scholarship, they engage with ...