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This Survey Of Works About The Trojan War, Greek Mythology And The Tradition Of Troy Stories Provides A Background That Helps Readers Appreciate The Ancient And Continually Recreated Tales.--book Jacket. Introduction -- Bronze Age Mycenae And Troy: Archaeological Evidence -- Oral Poetry And The Troy Cycle -- Homer's Iliad: The War At Troy -- Homer's Odyssey: The Long Journey Home -- Aeschylus' Agamemnon: Dead Heroes And Wild Women--controlling The Past -- Euripides' Two Iphigenia Plays: Human Sacrifice And Resolution -- Virgil's Aeneid: Roman Transformation Of Homeric Myth -- Transmission Of Troy Stories To The Middle Ages -- Love Redeems Eneas; Love Destroys Achilles: Troy As Romance -- Chaucer's Troilus And Criseyde: The Christian Synthesis -- Shakespeare's Troilus And Cressida: Human Beings Alone -- Improving Iphigenia: Racine And Goethe Modernize Evil -- The Firebrand And The Gate To Women's Country: Women Revise The Trojan Past -- The Tradition Continues: Troy In The Twentieth Century And Beyond. Diane P. Thompson. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 221-229) And Index.

Author

Diane P. Thompson

Publisher

McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers

Published

2004

Language

EN

ISBN

9780786417377

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Humanities