Homer’s Iliad is a problematic text. On the one hand, it tells us of a time before the Bronze Age Collapse in the twelfth century BC, a lost era before the Greek palaces burned and the survivors of catastrophe forget, for centuries, how to read or write. Such resources detailing this world are few, and
Homer’s Iliad is one of the oldest stories which has survived. Coming out of the Greek Dark Age and describing events which occurred more than three millennia ago, it is a richly wrought and beautiful poem, but also something of a puzzle. The events that it describes, whereby an alliance of Bronze Age Greek states
Archaeologists in the village of Stobreč in Croatia have unearthed an ancient Greek settlement. What makes this find especially exciting is that the oldest finds date back some 3,500 years, placing them firmly in the era of the Greek Bronze Age, the era of the Trojan War. This golden age for Greece saw a series
It is fair to say that gods are a little different. Whilst most creation myths have mankind created in the image of their immortal, divine benefactors, that image is rarely more than skin deep. True, sometimes gods are wildly different, but in these cases it is usually to make a point about their godhood. The