[SunkenCiv]

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The War That Killed Achilles: The True Story of Homer's "Iliad" and the Trojan War by Caroline Alexander KindlePaperback Unabridged MP3 CD Audiobook Audible Audio Unabridged Edition sample chapter (NYT)

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[JoeProBono]

[fieldmarshaldj]

"whose abduction of Helen, the fabulously beautiful daughter of the king of the gods"

Unstoppable hotness, baby.

[668 - Neighbor of the Beast]

Maybe blaming the snatching of Helen for the Trojan War is like blaming the assassination of the archduke for WWI.

It’s also simpler when you’re sitting around the campfire singing. Running off with the king’s wife makes for better lyrics than a long dissertation about socioeconomic disequilibrium.

On the other hand, they could’ve sung Rock Island Line ;)

IMO the big factor was Troy sitting at one end of the Dardanelles (access to the Euxine cities), pinching everybody for tolls both ways.

But when a queen is taken, the story takes on heroic dimensions you just can’t apply to being fed up with paying off a gauntlet of pirates.

[Larry Lucido]

Achilles? He was such a heel!

[Larry Lucido]

Achilles? He was such a heel!

[Hacksaw]

I liked the Brad Pitt version.