📚 The Trojan War, Barry Strauss; Quintus of Smyrna, Homer - FREE Shipping

📚 A superb and richly complementary 4-book bundle on the world of Homer, the Trojan War, and the birth of Greek civilization — combining cutting-edge modern scholarship with vivid social history and the untold stories behind the greatest epic tale in Western literature. This is an outstanding collection for students of ancient history, classical studies enthusiasts, Greek mythology lovers, Homeric scholars, and anyone captivated by the extraordinary world of Bronze Age Greece and the legendary war at Troy that shaped the entire subsequent course of Western civilization. Together these four titles offer an unmatched multi-dimensional view of the Trojan War and its world — from the latest archaeological and historical analysis of what actually happened at Troy to the fascinating details of everyday Homeric life and the dramatic story of what Homer chose not to tell — making this an ideal and genuinely exciting collection for anyone who has ever been moved by the Iliad or Odyssey .

Books Included in This Lot (as shown in photo):

• The Trojan War: A New History by Barry Strauss — The most authoritative and acclaimed modern scholarly reassessment of the Trojan War by Barry Strauss — Cornell professor of history and classics and one of America's leading ancient military historians. Drawing on the latest archaeological discoveries at Troy and Mycenae, Linear B tablet scholarship, and Bronze Age military history, Strauss makes a compelling and rigorously argued case for the historical reality of the Trojan War while reconstructing what the actual conflict would have looked like in vivid and convincing detail. The definitive modern treatment of this endlessly fascinating historical and literary question.

• The War at Troy: What Homer Didn't Tell — A richly researched and compellingly written account of the Trojan War filling in the dramatic stories that Homer's Iliad and Odyssey left untold — from the origins of the conflict and the Judgment of Paris through the deaths of Achilles and Ajax, the Trojan Horse stratagem, and the fall of Troy — drawing on the full range of Greek mythological and literary tradition surrounding the war to reconstruct the complete epic cycle in all its dramatic richness.

• Daily Life in the Time of Homer by Emile Mireaux — A richly detailed and vividly written social history reconstructing everyday life in Homeric Greece — food, clothing, housing, religion, warfare, commerce, and social customs — drawn from careful reading of the Homeric epics and archaeological evidence. An elegant and accessible vintage hardcover that brings the world of Achilles, Odysseus, and their contemporaries to life in extraordinary detail and is an essential companion to any reading of Homer.

• The Birth of Greece — A comprehensive and beautifully illustrated survey of the emergence of Greek civilization from its Bronze Age Mycenaean roots through the Dark Ages and the Archaic period to the flowering of classical culture — covering the archaeological discoveries, artistic achievements, political innovations, and intellectual breakthroughs that established Greece as the foundational civilization of the Western world.