Wrestling with Proteus: Toward a new analytic framework for understanding the Iliad, the Cyclic poems and the Trojan War.

The Trojan War is one of our oldest and most debated traditions. The conflict’s historicity has become increasingly accepted, but its nature is poorly understood. This essay suggests one issue may be the approach to both literary and historical analyses, which generally assume a basic outline for the Trojan War that is “taken for granted.”… Continue reading...