The War That Killed Achilles: The True Story of Homer's Iliad and the Trojan War by Caroline Alexander

The War That Killed Achilles: The True Story of Homer's Iliad and the Trojan War

Caroline Alexander

296 pages first pub 2009 (editions)

nonfiction classics history challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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Today, the Iliad is celebrated as one of the greatest of all works of literature, the epic of all epics. Many have forgotten that the subject of this ancient poem is war—not merely the poetical romance of the war at Troy, but War, in all its endur...

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