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Lectures

• "The Trojan Myth in Music", class lecture by Michael R. Nock (2006)

Archaeology of Troy

• Project Troia: Troia and the Troad-Archaeology of a Region: official website of the current excavations under the direction of the Universities of Tubingen and Cincinnati.
• Controversy over Late Bronze Age Troia (Troia VI and VII): an account of the debate between Profs. Kolb and Korfmann over the size and significance of Bronze Age Troy.
• Was There a Trojan War? by noted archaeologist Manfred Korfmann, discusses recent excavations at Troy (Archaeology Magazine, May/June 2004).
• Dissenting Views--Arguing that Troy is not in Turkey
  • Iman Wilkens's site promoting the (wildly incorrect) theory that Troy stood in Cambridgeshire, England.
  • A site proposing that the events in Homer transpired along Croatia's Dalmatian Coast.

Characters in the Trojan Cycle

• A webpage collecting links about Helen.

Homer

• A brief summary of the Iliad and its principal characters.
• Geographical Origins of the Major Contingents in the Catalogue of Ships presented in Google Earth [N.B. you must install Google Earth in order to view the Catalogue of Ships].
• Collection of poems by various authors inspired by the Iliad and Odyssey.
• The Homer Homepage: a useful collection of texts, links, and more (although, sadly, many of the links are broken).
• The Chicago Homer: a multilingual database that uses the search and display capabilities of electronic texts to make the distinctive features of Early Greek epic accessible to readers with and without Greek.
• Selections from the Iliad read in Greek.
• A list of deaths in the Iliad.
• Achilles, Odysseus, Agamemnon: Homer on Military Leadership, a paper delivered at the Pentagon.

Images, Art, Reconstructions

• The Trojan War in Ancient Art: a chronological survey of the myth using artwork.
• Aerial view of Troy as it exists today.
• Bird's eye reconstruction of the Bronze Age Troy.
• Troia VR: close-up reconstructions of several excavated areas at Troy.

Troy in the News

• Review of Fall of Troy by Peter Ackroyd (Sunday Herald, 9/3/06).
• "Iliad, Odyssey Penned by Woman": a report on Andrew's Dalby's take on an old idea (Discovery News, 8/28/06); Dalby has been debating his book with a Bryn Mawr graduate student [first post] [second post].
• Troy Has Fallen: a review of the motion picture Troy (2004) and several contempary documentaries (Archaeology Magazine, 5/14/04).
• Achilles at the Gates: an interview with Eric Shanower, artist of the graphic novels Age of Bronze (Archaeology Magazine, 4/19/2004).
• A review of Christopher Logue's continuing project to re-imagine the Trojan War in modern verse (Slate, May 13, 2003).

Writing Resources

• Guide to Research Papers and Presentations in Classics
• Guide to Citing Sources in Classics
• Combination Search page for most on-line, non-subscription Classics resources (via Univ. Kentucky)
• Summary of Chicago Style for Citations
• Resources for Writing Academic Papers