Table of Contents

List of illustrations
Acknowledgments

Introduction
Part I. The Trojan War
1 The story according to the Iliad, the Odyssey, and the Epic Cycle
2 The war in historical context: Mycenaeans, Hittites, Trojans, and Sea Peoples

Part II. Investigating the Literary Evidence
3 Homeric questions: Did Homer exist and is the Iliad accurate?
4 The Hittite texts: Assuwa, Ahhiyawa, and Alaksandu of Wilusa

Part III. Investigating the archaeological evidence
5 Early excavators: Heinrich Schliemann and Wilhelm Dörpfeld
6 Returning to Hisarlik: Carl Blegen and Manfred Korfmann
Epilogue

Glossary: Characters and Places
References
Further reading
Index

About the Author

Eric H. Cline is Professor of Classics and Anthropology and chair of the Department of Classical and Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, as well as director of the Capitol Archaeological Institute at George Washington University. He is Co-Director of the ongoing excavations at Megiddo (biblical Armageddon) in Israel and the author of Biblical Archaeology: A Very Short Introduction, winner of the 2011 Biblical Archaeology Society
Publication Award for the Best Popular Book on Archaeology.

Reviews

"The author's writing is so clear and his arguments so well structured and complete that this book will appeal to both interested amateurs and those familiar with the extensive literature on this subject." -- D. A. Slane, CHOICE
"A concise, well written, highly informative guide to the legends, the history, and the archaeology of Homer's fabled city."--Trevor Bryce, Honorary Research Consultant, University of Queensland, and Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities