Troy: myth and reality

Published to accompany a major exhibition at the British Museum, this book searches for the reality behind both the legends and the site of the ancient city itself. It introduces the storytellers who set down the original narrative, and recounts the fateful course of events – from the Judgment of Paris to the trials of Odysseus on his journey home and the wanderings of Aeneas to find a new land to settle. The nineteenth-century search for the location of Troy and Heinrich Schliemann’s excavations are also explored, as is the possible Bronze Age background for the war.