A Literary History of Greece Author:Robert Flaceliere If Helen of Troy had not loved so unwisely would Homer have written so well? — The Trojan War did happen, and though some doubt that Homer wrote the Iliad, both were products of that ancient Helenic time. Professor Flaceliere considers the world as it existed then, inseparable from the great literature it produced. In A LITERAY HISTORY OF GREECE ... more »he discusses the classics, from Homer to Plotinus, in the contest of their times as he tells of the customs, the battles, the art, and the law...the life that engendered the magnificent literature of the ancient Greeks.« less