Two Anonymous Byzantine Romances about the Trojan War

This volume provides the first English translations of The Tale of Troy and The Tale of Achilles, two medieval Greek romances by anonymous authors of the 14th/15th centuries that narrate the lives and loves of Achilles and Paris before and during the Trojan War.Set in the deep past of Greek mythology, these poems follow Achilles and Paris through their childhoods and their first stirrings of roman...