The world of Odysseus - M I Finley

Who was Homer? When were Iliad and the Odyssey composed? When and why did the Trojan War occur? What sort of society did Odysseus, Achilles, Helen, Hector and Priam live in? What were their beliefs about government, religion, class and sex? Many such questions spring to the minds of the hundreds of thousands of people who have read Homer. The answers are provided in The Worl of Odysseus by a Cambridge scholar, who has used both the evidence of the texts and the latest researches in archaeology and anthropology to reconstruct a clear and absorbing picture of the Homeric age.