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Laddar... The Trojan War: Literature and Legends from the Bronze Age to the Presentav Diane P. Thompson
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"This book starts with an overview of the Bronze Age when the Trojan War occurred, and then follows a selection of the major literature about this war from Homer down through the ages and on to the Internet. Each retelling of the Troy story is discussed in its historical context and includes a synopsis of the story itself"-- Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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Homer: The Iliad & the Odyssey (8th century BCE)
Aeschylus: Oresteia (458 BCE)
Euripides: Iphigenia in Tauris (414 BCE) & Iphigenia at Aulis (405 BCE)
Virgil: Aeneid (c. 20 BCE)
Anonymous: Le Roman d'Enéas (c. 1160)
Benoit de Sainte: Roman de Troie (c. 1155)
Guido delle Colonna: Historia Destructionis Troiae (1287)
Chaucer: Troilus and Criseyde (c. 1380)
Shakespeare: Troilus and Cressida (1602)
Racine: Iphigenie en Aulide (1674)
Goethe: Iphigenie auf Tauris (1787)
James Joyce: Ulysses (1922)
Marion Bradley: The Firebrand (1987)
Sheri Tepper: The Gate to Women's Country (1988)
Many other texts are mentioned and discussed.
The author: "When I began this project many years ago, I thought I would find 'solutions' to the problem of the Trojan War, why people destroy one another. I hoped that some of the great authors I was planning to explore would offer the kind of wisdom that could help people avoid future catastrophes. I was wrong. If Troy is the problem, the answer is always something like, 'if only ....'" (loc. 4642)