Troy And Homer

Author : Joachim Latacz
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2004-10-28
Category : History
ISBN : 0199263086

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Troy and Homer by Joachim Latacz Pdf

The ancient Greek poet Homer tells of the wealthy city of Troy and its defeat in the Trojan War. Since the classical period there has been much debate about whether this is a poetic fiction or a memory of historical reality. Earlier excavations at the hill of Hisarlik, in Turkey, brought no answer, but in 1988 new excavations, under the direction of Manfred Korfmann, led to a radical shift in understanding. In this book Joachim Latacz, one of Korfmann's closest collaborators, shows how this new research has shed light on what is now known about Troy and the Trojan War.

Author : Joachim Latacz,Head of the School of Language Studies Kevin Windle,Reader in the Department of Classical and Modern European Languages Kevin Windle,Visiting Fellow in the School of Language Studes Rosh Ireland
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2004-10-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199263080

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Troy and Homer by Joachim Latacz,Head of the School of Language Studies Kevin Windle,Reader in the Department of Classical and Modern European Languages Kevin Windle,Visiting Fellow in the School of Language Studes Rosh Ireland Pdf

The ancient Greek poet Homer tells of the wealthy city of Troy and its defeat in the Trojan War. Since the classical period there has been much debate about whether this is a poetic fiction or a memory of historical reality. Earlier excavations at the hill of Hisarlik, in Turkey, brought no answer, but in 1988 new excavations, under the direction of Manfred Korfmann, led to a radical shift in understanding. In this book Joachim Latacz, one of Korfmann's closest collaborators, shows how this new research has shed light on what is now known about Troy and the Trojan War.

Author : Quintas of Quintas of Smryna
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1968-03-15
Category : Troy
ISBN : 0806148160

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The War at Troy by Quintas of Quintas of Smryna Pdf

Quintus' epic, written probably in the third century after Christ, is the only extant literary work from antiquity that gives a connected account of the events of the Trojan War. It tells what happened to Achilles and to Troy, and of the fatal enterprises of the Queen of the Amazons and the King of Ethiopia, the funeral games held in honor of Achilles, the victory of Odysseus in his contest with Aias, the death of Paris, the strategy of the wooden horse, and the capture and sack of Troy.

Author : Theodor Kallifatides
Publisher : Other Press, LLC
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2019-09-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781590519721

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The Siege of Troy by Theodor Kallifatides Pdf

In this perceptive retelling of The Iliad, a young Greek teacher draws on the enduring power of myth to help her students cope with the terrors of Nazi occupation. Bombs fall over a Greek village during World War II, and a teacher takes her students to a cave for shelter. There she tells them about another war—when the Greeks besieged Troy. Day after day, she recounts how the Greeks suffer from thirst, heat, and homesickness, and how the opponents meet—army against army, man against man. Helmets are cleaved, heads fly, blood flows. And everything had begun when Prince Paris of Troy fell in love with King Menelaus of Sparta's wife, the beautiful Helen, and escaped with her to his homeland. Now Helen stands atop the city walls to witness the horrors set in motion by her flight. When her current and former loves face each other in battle, she knows that, whatever happens, she will be losing. Theodor Kallifatides provides remarkable psychological insight in his version of The Iliad, downplaying the role of the gods and delving into the mindsets of its mortal heroes. Homer's epic comes to life with a renewed urgency that allows us to experience events as though firsthand, and reveals timeless truths about the senselessness of war and what it means to be human.

Author : Homer
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2018-02-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780008275969

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Troy: The epic battle as told in Homer’s Iliad (Collins Classics) by Homer Pdf

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Author : Jill Rubalcaba,Eric H. Cline
Publisher : Charlesbridge Publishing
Page : 83 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781580893268

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Digging for Troy by Jill Rubalcaba,Eric H. Cline Pdf

Recounts the lost city of Troy and the efforts it took to rediscover it.

Author : Günay Uslu
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY
ISBN : 9462982694

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Homer, Troy and the Turks by Günay Uslu Pdf

Homer's stories of Troy are part of the foundations of Western culture. What's less well known is that they also inspired Ottoman-Turkish cultural traditions. Yet even with all the historical and archaeological research into Homer and Troy, most scholars today rely heavily on Western sources, giving Ottoman work in the field short shrift. This book helps right that balance, exploring Ottoman-Turkish involvement and interest in the subject between 1870, when Heinrich Schliemann began his excavations in search of Troy on Ottoman soil, and the battle of Gallipoli in 1915, which gave the Turks their own version of the heroic epic of Troy.

Author : Padraic Colum
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781465537737

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The Adventures of Odysseus and the Tales of Troy by Padraic Colum Pdf

Author : Robert Graves
Publisher : Rosetta Books
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2014-03-06
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780795336478

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The Siege and Fall of Troy by Robert Graves Pdf

The author of I, Claudius reimagines the Trojan War for the young reader. “The writing is clear, straightforward, and, in places, poetic” (Kirkus Reviews). The Iliad has it all: war, corruption, greed, power, and the passions of both gods and men. In this detailed retelling, Robert Graves draws the major characters of this timeless classic in broad, gritty strokes, making Agamemnon, Paris, Odysseus, and others accessible for young readers. Written with a younger audience in mind, The Siege and Fall of Troy is nevertheless exhaustively researched and compelling enough to be of interest to both students of history and adult readers. With humor, wit, and energy, Graves is expert at weaving a story based on exhaustive scholarly research and deep imaginative prowess.

Author : Günay Uslu
Publisher : W Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9040007934

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Troy by Günay Uslu Pdf

No city has captured the imagination like Troy does. Since the famous poet Homer wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey in the eighth century BC, many peoples have sung, edited, studied and appropriated the stories of the city, the war between Greeks and Trojans and the famous Trojan horse. Roman emperors and many European monarchs have traced their roots to Trojan or Greek heroes. Troy was a legendary city, a city of poetry, paintings, operas and films. But the city really existed: in 1871 the German archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann found the remains of Troy during excavations in Turkey. Since the end of the nineteenth century, teams of archaeologists exposed the history of the city. In this handbook, with contributions from numerous experts from the Netherlands and Turkey, the latest insights and discoveries about both the historical and legendary Troy are presented.0Exhibition: Allard Pierson Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (7.12.2012-5.5.2013).

Author : Homer,William Lucas Collins
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1876
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:HN3QA2

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The Iliad by Homer,William Lucas Collins Pdf

Author : Homer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2008-08
Category : Epic poetry, Greek
ISBN : 0981816282

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The Iliad [Abridged] by Homer Pdf

Author : Martin M. Winkler
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2009-02-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781405178549

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Troy by Martin M. Winkler Pdf

This is the first book systematically to examine Wolfgang Petersen’s epic film Troy from different archaeological, literary, cultural, and cinematic perspectives. The first book systematically to examine Wolfgang Petersen’s epic film Troy from different archaeological, literary, cultural, and cinematic perspectives. Examines the film’s use of Homer’s Iliad and the myth of the Trojan War, its presentation of Bronze-Age archaeology, and its place in film history. Identifies the modern political overtones of the Trojan War myth as expressed in the film and explains why it found world-wide audiences. Editor and contributors are archaeologists or classical scholars, several of whom incorporate films into their teaching and research. Includes an annotated list of films and television films and series episodes on the Trojan War. Contains archaeological illustrations of Troy, relevant images of ancient art, and stills from films on the Trojan War.

Author : Quintus (Smyrnaeus)
Publisher : Barnes & Noble
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0760700974

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The War at Troy by Quintus (Smyrnaeus) Pdf

Quintus' epic, written probably in the thrid century AD, is the only extant literary work from antiquity which gives a connected account of the events of the Trojan War, which took place between the death of Hector and the departure of the Greeks.

Author : Laurie Maguire
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2009-04-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1444308637

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Helen of Troy by Laurie Maguire Pdf

Helen of Troy: From Homer to Hollywood is a comprehensive literary biography of Helen of Troy, which explores the ways in which her story has been told and retold in almost every century from the ancient world to the modern day. Takes readers on an epic voyage into the literary representations of a woman who has wielded a great influence on Western cultural consciousness for more than three millennia Features a wide and diverse variety of literary sources, including epic, drama, novels, poems, film, comedy, and opera, and works by Homer, Euripides, Chaucer, Shakespeare Includes an analysis of a radio play by the prize-winning author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time and a Faust play by a contemporary Scottish playwright Explores themes such as narrative difficulties in portraying Helen, how legal history relates to her story, and how writers apportion blame or exculpate her Considers the aesthetic and narrative difficulties that ensue when literature translates myth