The Trojan War has long become legend, and the Olympic gods are nothing more than museum sculptures and myth characters. But in those ancient times, when the gods lived side by side with people, nothing human was alien to them. The inhabitants of Olympus suffered very down-to-earth problems, joked, quarreled, loved and hated—oh, how they did! That’s how ancient authors portrayed them, vividly describing the heroic age in their poems. What if we tried to travel back to that glorious era and find out what it was really like?
Additional information: The book is based on works by many ancient writers. The author’s collected facts are presented in a clear modern language.
The book will be interesting for those who want to learn about the main myths of ancient Greece, to get acquainted with the content of the Iliad without having to wade through hexameters of academic translations.
The Iliad is a bestseller spanning several millennia—a book with which adventure literature began, fantasy that the civilized peoples of the ancient world played for centuries. Without knowing ancient Greek, we can’t enjoy the beauty of its wording anymore, but its plot and heroes must be known—if only to understand who statues in old parks depict, what’s shown in museum paintings, and what old— and often even modern—book authors constantly refer to and hint at.