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Troy: war, peoples and traditions
Section overview
Stories of Troy
The Trojan War: the Story and Its Sources
Here Stood Troy
What Became of Troy?
Was the Trojan Horse Really a Horse?
Was the Trojan War a Kind of World War?
How Many Combatants Could Have Taken Part in the Trojan War?
How Do We Know What Happened in the Trojan War?
The Price of Victory
Homer's Armies
I. Organisation
II. The Battlefield
III. Combat
Peoples and names
Peoples and Communities in the Iliad and the Odyssey
Were the Achaeans, Argives, Danaans and Hellenes the Same?
Were the Trojans and Dardanians the Same?
Who Fought for Troy?
Characters in the Iliad
Achilles
Antilochus
Agamemnon
Aeneas
Hector
Helen
Helenus and Cassandra
Iphigenia
Polyxena
Geography and Journey
Section overview
A Word to Seafarers
What Were Homer’s Ships Like?
Odysseus’ Wanderings
What Happened at Ismarus?
What Happened When Odysseus Rounded Cape Malea?
Who Were the Lotus-Eaters?
Who Was Polyphemus?
The Odyssey from Within
Section overview
The Passing of Time in the Odyssey
Sex in the Odyssey
Women in the Odyssey
The Economy of Debt
Does It Help to Know the Future?
Who Worked in Odysseus’ World?
Penelope and the Weaving of the Odyssey
The Dream of the Twenty Geese
Penelope’s Secret
Beauty as a Path to Ruin
Before the Page, the Voice
When Nobody Signed Anything
The Bronze Past
Homer and His World
Section overview
Were the Iliad and the Odyssey Composed by the Same Poet?
In Search of Homer
Homer through Hesiod’s Eyes
Names and Places Before Homer
What Did Homer Know About the World He Described? I: Objects and Techniques
What Did Homer Know About the World He Described? II: Houses and Everyday Life
Homer and the Dead
Sources and Project
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Image Gallery
Annotated Bibliography
Homeric Terms Glossary
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