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| The Burning of Troy by Francisco Collantes |
The Trojan War. The name conjures up images of humanity simultaneously at its most sublime and its most terrible. The comradely, friendship, heroism, bravery, and valor in the defense of friends and loved ones is cast against wanton and destructive selfishness, cruelty, and rage. The events of the Trojan War, and the central characters in its narrative- Achilles, Hector, Agamemnon, Paris, Helen, Odysseus- never die. They are all alive, even before us, even today. All of the major military and humanitarian questions in the conduct of war are on display in the myth, things that make the Bronze Age seem as merely a mirror image of our own times.
On this blog, we'll be going on a journey- to explore the myths and the reality behind this timeless story of conflict, triumph, and despair.
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