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Surveys the historical underpinnings of the Heroic Age in ancient Greek tradition Different as the Trojan War was to Greeks and Romans, the two peoples united in an identical longing for a heroism that was attainable in the present only by reaching out for an impossible past. Carol G. Thomas and Craig Conant's broad and varied account of the Trojan War allows readers to investigate the archaeological and historical foundations that underlie...

Citadel to City-State serves as an excellent summarization of ourpresent knowledge of the not-so-dark Dark Age as well as an admirable prologue tothe understanding of the subsequent Archaeic and Classical periods." -- DavidRupp, PhoenixThe Dark Age of Greece is one of the leastunderstood periods of Greek history. A terra incognita between the Mycenaeancivilization of Late Bronze Age Greece and the flowering of Classical Greece, theDark Age was...

The Trojan War is an event that stands at the very foundation of the Western and the epic tradition, and this volume provides readers with an opportunity to experience it in as direct and as varied a manner as is possible.