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The dramatic incidents of the Trojan War are legend but Homer s epic poem, Iliad, is committed entirely to a few mundane weeks by the end of the debilitating, waning ten-year plan. The storyline s emphasis is not on episode but on a bitter truth: both armies want only to stop struggling and go home. Achilles the electrifying hero who's Homer s great creation quarrels with his commander, Agamemnon, but eventually profits to the field to avenge a comrade s death. Few warriors, in life or literature, have challenged their commanding officer and the explanation of the war they fought as fiercely as have Homer s Achilles. Homer s Iliad addresses the central questions determining the war connection with every age. Is usually a warrior ever before justified in challenging his commander? Must he sacrifice his life for someone else s cause? Giving his life for his country, will a man betray his family? Can death ever be paid out by glory? How is a catastrophic war ever allowed to get started on and just why, if all parties wish it over, can it not be concluded? As she have in The Endurance plus the Bounty, Caroline Alexander has taken apart a tale we think we know and put it back together in a way that discloses what Homer really meant us to glean from his masterpiece. Written with the specialist of the scholar and the vigor of the bestselling narrative historian, The War That Killed Achilles is a superb and utterly well-timed presentation of 1 of the classic stories of our civilization."
