The Trojan War, New Edition: The Chronicles of Dictys of Crete and Dares the Phrygian

Imagine accounts of the Trojan War from those who actually fought there, long before Homer wrote The Iliad. Dictys's A Journal of the Trojan War and Dares's The Fall of Troy: A History tell in gritty detail the bloody siege of the fabled, doomed city. Intricate politics and memorable personalities, rather than the quarreling, intervening gods of Homer's epic, dominate these tales.Archaeological discovery and subsequent scholarship have established that both accounts were originally written ...