Maura (maura853) - , reviewed on 6/9/2018 + 542 more book reviews

The first hint of the problem here is in the Prologue, in which Alexander can only describe what she is doing in terms of what it is not: not a factual history of the Trojan War, not a history of the text of the Iliad, nor a history of the cultural impact of the Iliad. That doesn't really leave very much, does it, and by the final chapters (which I confess, I skimmed) the lack of a really focused thesis adds up to little more than a long-winded and repetitive retelling of Homer's great work.

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