The Trojan War : : Literature and Legends From the Bronze Age to the Present
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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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PUBLISHED
Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., c2004.
Year Published: 2004
Description: vi, 241 p. : maps ; 23 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
0786417374 :
SUBJECTS
Trojan War -- Literature and the war.