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Article: The Trojan War.(Book review)
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- The Historian
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- September 22, 2006
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The Trojan War. By Carol G. Thomas and Craig Conant. (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2005. Pp. xvii, 209. $45.00.)
The very choice of the Trojan War as one of the subjects in this Greenwood series is a statement of ambiguous meaning. On the one hand, it may amount to envisaging the Trojan War as a full-scale historic event on a par with the Peloponnesian War. On the other hand, it may be based on the assumption that, whether or not the Trojan War actually took place, the historic impact of the myth of the Trojan War is so great that it merits serious consideration in its own right. The book under review tries to do justice to both approaches, with uneven ...