In all the stories told by mankind and recorded through its history, the tale of the siege of Troy is perhaps the greatest secular story ever told. It has certainly captured the western imagination for some 3000 years. Archaeological work has revealed that the site around Hisarlik, where Troy is believed to have been, is considerably larger and more interesting than was previously thought, making it more likely that the Trojan Wars were on the scale implied by Homer. This book reveals the literary, historical and archaeological records which make up the background to the tale of Troy and describes in detail the fortifications of Troy VI (i.e. Homer's Troy) and their correlation to other Bronze Age defence works in the Near East. This book also introduces the reader to the literary, historical and archaeological records which make up the background to the tale of Troy.
In all the stories told by mankind and recorded through its history, the tale of the siege of Troy is perhaps the greatest secular story ever told. It has certainly captured the western imagination for some 3000 years. Archaeological work has revealed that the site around Hisarlik, where Troy is believed to have been, is considerably larger and more interesting than was previously thought, making it more likely that the Trojan Wars were on the scale implied by Homer. This book reveals the literary, historical and archaeological records which make up the background to the tale of Troy and describes in detail the fortifications of Troy VI (i.e. Homer's Troy) and their correlation to other Bronze Age defence works in the Near East. This book also introduces the reader to the literary, historical and archaeological records which make up the background to the tale of Troy.
Chronology; Homer's heroes; the searchers; the archaeologists; the fortifications; siege; aftermath; the sites today.
Dr Nic Fields started his career as a biochemist before joining
the Royal Marines. Having left the Navy, he went back to University
and completed a BA and PhD in Ancient History at the University of
Newcastle. He was Assistant Director at the British School of
Archaeology, Athens, and is now a lecturer in Ancient History and
Archaeology at the University of Edinburgh.
Donato Spedaliere was born in 1967 in Lausanne, Switzerland, and
moved to Tuscany at the age of 10, where he still lives. Having
studied at the Instituto Nazionale di Belle Arti in Florence he
served in the Italian Army as a paratrooper. He is the chief
illustrator of Alina Illustrazioni, the company he founded in 1998
with his wife Sarah after many years experience as a professional
illustrator. Sarah Sulemsohn Spedaliere graduated from the Hebrew
University of Jerusalem. She has since lectured at the University
of Florence and completed an architecture degree in 1994.
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