Archaeology and the Iliad: The Trojan War in Homer and History pdf

Eric H. Klein est professeur de lettres classiques et d'anthropologie, directeur du Capitol Institute of Archaeology et ancien directeur du département des langues et civilisations classiques et du Proche-Orient à l'Université George Washington à Washington, DC. Il est un archéologue avec une longue histoire de fouilles et d'arpentage dans de nombreuses régions du monde. Klein est l'auteur et l'éditeur de 19 livres qui ont été traduits en 16 langues, notamment "Three Stones Make a Wall: The Story of Archaeology" et "Battles of Armageddon". Klein a remporté de nombreux prix pour ses livres, ses recherches et son enseignement.

Archaeology and the Iliad: The Trojan War in Homer and History pdf par Eric H. Klein

The Trojan War, captured forever in Homer’s epic poem the Iliad, resonates to the present day in the popular imagination, and this magnificent confrontation continues to exert a tremendous influence on modern audiences.
But did Troy actually exist? And if so, where is it located? Was the Trojan War actually fought? If it was, did it take place over the course of ten years, as Homer wrote, or was it a much longer series of battles? And why was the war fought? Could Helen’s face alone really have launched a thousand ships?
In this course, esteemed professor Eric H. Cline examines the real history of Troy and delves into the archaeological discoveries (which continue to the present day) that help to answer the questions above. Through an entertaining and incisive analysis of known data, Professor Cline provides a fuller, richer understanding of this historic clash.