The War That Killed Achilles by Caroline Alexander
The True Story of Homer's Iliad and the Trojan War
A richly researched study that reads the Iliad alongside archaeology and ancient records to ask whether the epic preserves a real Bronze Age conflict: tracing excavations at Troy and Mycenaean sites, Hittite texts and Linear B evidence, it reassesses famous figures and episodes—Achilles, Hector, Helen, Agamemnon—showing how story, memory and material remains intersect, and argues that, regardless of precise historicity, the poem encodes the human cost of war and the social transformations that helped end the Bronze Age and shape the Greek world.
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