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9780670021123

The War That Killed Achilles The True Story of Homer's Iliad and the Trojan War

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  • ISBN13:

    9780670021123

  • ISBN10:

    0670021121

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2009-10-15
  • Publisher: Viking Adult

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Summary

From the author of the bestselling work "The Bounty" comes a groundbreaking reading of "The Iliad" that restores Homer's vision of the tragedy of war.

Author Biography

Caroline Alexander is the author of the international bestsellers The Endurance and The Bounty. A Rhodes Scholar, she was a lecturer at the University of Malawi, where she established the department of classics. She received her doctorate in classics at Columbia University, where she was a Mellon Fellow in the humanities. Alexander is a contributing writer to National Geographic Magazine and has written for The New Yorker, Smithsonian, and Outside.

Table of Contents

The War That Killed Achilles Preface
Note to the Reader
Map: Landscape of the Trojan War

The Things They Carried
Chain of Command
Terms of Engagement
Enemy Lines
Land of MyFathers
In God We Trust
Man Down
No Hostages
The Death of Hektor
Everlasting Glory

Acknowledgments
Notes
Selected Further Reading
Index

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