The Trojan War: A Very Short Introduction

The Trojan War: A Very Short Introduction pdf

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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.

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The Trojan War: A Very Short Introduction pdf par Eric H. Klein

The Iliad, Homer's epic tale of the abduction of Helen and the decade-long Trojan War, has fascinated mankind for millennia. Even today, the war inspires countless articles and books, extensive archaeological excavations, movies, television documentaries, even souvenirs and collectibles. But
while the ancients themselves believed that the Trojan War took place, scholars of the modern era have sometimes derided it as a piece of fiction.
Combining archaeological data and textual analysis of ancient documents, this Very Short Introduction considers whether or not the war actually took place and whether archaeologists have really discovered the site of ancient Troy. To answer these questions, archaeologist and ancient historian Eric
H. Cline examines various written sources, including the works of Homer, the Epic Cycle (fragments from other, now-lost Greek epics), classical plays, and Virgil's Aeneid. Throughout, the author tests the literary claims against the best modern archaeological evidence, showing for instance that
Homer, who lived in the Iron Age, for the most part depicted Bronze Age warfare with accuracy. Cline also tells the engaging story of the archaeologists--Heinrich Schliemann and his successors Wilhelm Dörpfeld, Carl Blegen, and Manfred Korfmann--who found the long-vanished site of Troy through
excavations at Hisarlik, Turkey.
Drawing on evidence found at Hisarlik and elsewhere, Cline concludes that a war or wars in the vicinity of Troy probably did take place during the Late Bronze Age, forming the nucleus of a story that was handed down orally for centuries until put into final form by Homer. But Cline suggests that,
even allowing that a Trojan War took place, it probably was not fought because of Helen's abduction, though such an incident may have provided the justification for a war actually fought for more compelling economic and political motives.
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