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Thompson, Diane P., 1940-

The Trojan War : literature and legends from the Bronze Age to the present / Diane P. Thompson.

Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., ©2004.

vi, 241 pages : maps ; 23 cm

"This survey of works about the Trojan War, Greek mythology and the tradition of Troy stories provides a background that helps readers appreciate the ancient and continually recreated tales."--Jacket.

Trojan War -- Literature and the war.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-229) and index.

Introduction -- Bronze Age Mycenae and Troy: archaeological evidence -- Oral poetry and the Troy cycle -- Homer's Iliad: the war at Troy -- Homer's Odyssey: the long journey home -- Aeschylus' Agamemnon: dead heroes and wild women--controlling the past -- Euripides' two Iphigenia plays: human sacrifice and resolution -- Virgil's Aeneid: Roman transformation of Homeric myth -- Transmission of Troy stories to the Middle Ages -- Love redeems Eneas; love destroys Achilles: Troy as romance -- Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde: the Christian synthesis -- Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida: human beings alone -- Improving Iphigenia: Racine and Goethe modernize evil -- The Firebrand and The Gate to women's country: women revise the Trojan past -- The tradition continues: Troy in the twentieth century and beyond.

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