06-17-2008, 09:54 AM
Hi Giannis
Trust me and read the book by Barry Strauss. I was so pleased with it that my heart warms at the thought of convincing someone to read it. I really think you will like it.
Srauss describes warfare in the bronze age and argues, by making comparisons to what was "typical" war-making in the "global" culture of the period, that the events told by Homer and the other sources of the Trojan War are more likely to have happened than not. He successfully attempts to depict the possible motivations for how the greeks and the trojans acted, their material and cultural constraints and options, and the tragedy of war in that period of history. I find it a brilliant piece of work and really creates an atmosphere that might trigger good writing of novels and film scripts for movies with exotic yet credible costumes and scenes.
Trust me and read the book by Barry Strauss. I was so pleased with it that my heart warms at the thought of convincing someone to read it. I really think you will like it.
Srauss describes warfare in the bronze age and argues, by making comparisons to what was "typical" war-making in the "global" culture of the period, that the events told by Homer and the other sources of the Trojan War are more likely to have happened than not. He successfully attempts to depict the possible motivations for how the greeks and the trojans acted, their material and cultural constraints and options, and the tragedy of war in that period of history. I find it a brilliant piece of work and really creates an atmosphere that might trigger good writing of novels and film scripts for movies with exotic yet credible costumes and scenes.
Jeffery Wyss
"Si vos es non secui of solutio tunc vos es secui of preciptate."
"Si vos es non secui of solutio tunc vos es secui of preciptate."
