A photographic tour of the main localities described in Homer's "Iliad," and "Odyssey," with discussion of how the poetic depictions of the ancient landscape compare with reality.
Content Note
Landscape and the bard -- The Troad -- The Plain of Troy and the rivers -- Troy, Homer, and the archaeologists -- Signposts to the course of the fighting -- Homeric Ithaca : geography and archaeology -- Homeric Ithaca : narrative and locality.