The novel “Song of Troy” is an interesting and vivid attempt to tell the story of the Trojan War from the viewpoint of many of its participants—on both sides of the conflict: Helen and Agamemnon, Odysseus and Patroclus, Hector and many other characters from the great myth—who, however, in “Song of Troy,” appear not as heroes in the classical antique sense, but as ordinary people with their strengths and weaknesses. People equally capable of very unflattering, and also very noble—and even astonishing—deeds. So what did they think and feel, what did they love and hate, what did they hope for and dream of—men and women who had to become participants in the most sweeping war and the most terrible tragedy of long-ago antiquity?