Are the "Iliad" and the "Odyssey" just charming poetic fantasies? Or do they give a more or less accurate picture of the Mycenaean period, the early Dark Age of Homer's own era? Do archaeological discoveries like Schliemann's excavations at Troy bear out Homer's account of the Trojan war? The author offers an analysis of Homer's depiction of kinship and community, Helen and Hector, morals and values, Paris, Priam and the gods.
- ISBN10 0701122447
- ISBN13 9780701122447
- Publish Date 3 November 1977 (first published December 1956)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 10 January 1992
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Vintage Publishing
- Imprint Chatto & Windus
- Edition 2nd Revised edition
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 192
- Language English