La guerra de Troya

Starting point of Homer's Iliad, the Trojan War is, without a doubt, one of the most important and recognized war conflicts in History, one of the cornerstones of Western culture. There a coalition of Achaean armies clashed against the city of Troy (Ilium). And, according to the classical myth, it was a punitive expedition of the Achaeans, whose casus belli would be the kidnapping of the beautiful Helen of Sparta by the Trojan prince Paris... These facts, well known by the popular imagination until today , was considered true by the ancient Greeks. However, although Homer started from real events, the controversy periodically resurfaces; Because how much truth is there in the story of the aedo? And where does the idea of ??an invading horse or that of the famous Achilles' heel come from? In short, what is history and how much legend in the mythical Trojan War? His deep knowledge of Greco-Latin and Bronze Age culture throughout the western Mediterranean allows Barry Strauss to place the Iliad in its context and, incidentally, unfold his dazzling and detailed prose on the political, military and social environment of one of the the most legendary battles of all time. And he does it with his usual narrative skill and unusual ability to make the reader relive the historical episode as if it were happening before his eyes. This is a masterpiece on one of the main themes of the history of classical antiquity, essential for any history buff, written by one of the world's great specialists of the period.