The Attack on Troy by Rodney Castleden (.ePUB)
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The Attack on Troy by Rodney Castleden
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Overview: 3250 years ago Agamemnon, king of Mycenae in Greece, attacked the city of Troy in western Anatolia. The bloody siege that followed gave rise to one of the most famous legends of the ancient world, and the search for the truth behind the legend has intrigued scholars ever since. In this fascinating new investigation Rodney Castleden reconsiders all the evidence – from Homer’s poetry to the exciting discoveries made by modern archaeology – in order to establish the facts and give a historical basis to the most potent myth of ancient warfare.
The Trojan War grew out of a clash between rival civilizations in Greece and Anatolia that can now be describe in some detail. Recent research gives a keen insight into the values, political structure, economies and military organization of the Mycenaean and Trojan adversaries. And it explains the underlying motives for their conflict. Advances in scolarship allow us to describe the make up of the opposing forces, the organization of the Mycenaean expedition and the layout and defenses of Troy itself. And we can depct the techniques and tactics of Bronze Age warfare, as recorded by Homer and as revealed by surviving artefacts and the archaeological knowledge of the modern day.
Rodney Castleden’s new analysis gives rise to a convincing reconstruction of the Mycenaean raid and the brutal siege that Homer’s story-telling transformed into an epic and a myth. The author also places the episode in the wider context of the history of the ancient Aegean, which was the clash-point for competing cultures like those of the Mycenaeans and the Hittites. Homer’s epic heroes – Agamemnon, Priam, Hector, Paris, Achilles – were perhaps players in a much larger war-game.
Genre: Non-Fiction > History
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