Displaying 1 of 1 2004 Format: Book Author: Thompson, Diane P., 1940- Title: The Trojan War : literature and legends from the Bronze Age to the present / Diane P. Thompson. Publisher, Date: Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., ©2004. Description: vi, 241 pages : maps ; 23 cm Summary: "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. Subjects: Trojan War -- Literature and the war. Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-229) and index. Contents: 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. Web Site: Table of contents LCCN: 2003023690 ISBN: 0786417374 9780786417377 0786417374 Other Number: 53330813 System Availability: 1 Current Holds: 0 # Local items: 1 Control Number: 141228 # Local items in: 1 # System items in: 1 Call Number: 808.8 Thompson Place Hold Add to My List Expand All | Collapse All Availability Map It Suggestions and more Displaying 1 of 1