Troy: myth and reality (British Museum)
Beyond the Myth
$61.41
- Paperback
312 pages
- Release Date
6 January 2020
Summary
Troy is familiar to us from the timeless and epic tales of Homer’s Iliad and Virgil’s Aeneid. These have been retold over the centuries by writers from Chaucer to Shakespeare to Madeline Miller and Rick Riordan, and enacted by stars such as Elizabeth Taylor and Brad Pitt. But how much do we really know about the city of Troy; its storytellers, myth, actual location or legacy?
In this richly illustrated book, the story of Troy is told through a new lens. Published to …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780500480588 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0500480583 |
| Author: | Andrew Shapland, Alexandra Villing, Victoria Donnellan, J. Lesley Fitton |
| Publisher: | Thames & Hudson Ltd |
| Imprint: | Thames & Hudson Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 312 |
| Release Date: | 6 January 2020 |
| Weight: | 1.73kg |
| Dimensions: | 28mm x 261mm x 280mm |
Andrew Shapland
Alexandra Villing is a Curator of the Greek collections in the Department of Greece and Rome at the British Museum.
Dr Lesley Fitton is Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Greece and Rome at the British Museum.
Victoria Donnellan is Project Curator for the Troy exhibition.
Andrew Shapland is Curator of the Aegean World and Classical Greek collections at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford.
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