Reviews

`this is a learned, innovative, and thought-provoking book, and one which through the methology it presents successfully elucidates and finds new meanings in its target-texts and images.'
Ian Rutherford, The Classical Rev., 2000.
`serious treatment of imagery alongside textual analysis is a refreshingly unique aspect of his study ... Furthermore, his discussion is based on very careful examination of the details of what actually appears in each scene, complemented by a sensitive understanding of the place of form and design in the composition of images ... Particularly noteworthy are the clarity and elegance of Anderson's prose. He manages to avoid jargon, and throughout he
demonstrates remarkable control ... it is a pleasure to read a book as well written as this one, whatever its subject.'
T H Carpenter, American Journal of Philology, 120 (1999)
`Anderson has done an admirable job of teasing out the contents of the Iloupersis through its summary by Proklos, various allusions to the fall of Troy in the extant epics and Attic tragedy, and selected visual representations of the cataclysmic event ... the text is very readable.'
Jenifer Neils, Classical World
`Anderson is at his most effective in showing how the fragmentary remains of the poems of the "epic cycle" can, when looked at alongside the Iliad and Odyssey, be made to yield significant correspondences.'
Times Literary Supplement
`worthwhile study ... One of the virtues of this book is that Anderson found an approach to the material that is constructive, that is not confounded at every turn by the limitations of the evidence ... Perhaps the book's broadest and most important contribution is that it abundantly attests to the fluidity and elasticity of the tradition about Troy ... The book is written and organized in such a way that it is accessible to nonspecialists as well as being
useful to scholars ... the most interesting account in English of the sack of Troy in Greek art and literature now available.'
Guy Hedreen, Bryn Mawr Classical Review