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Diane P. Thompson is professor emerita at Northern Virginia Community College. She has been a long-time scholar of Troy studies. She lives in Reston, Virginia.

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Scholarly yet accessible overview of the Troy meme throughout literary history. Excellent companion volume for the original classics or any of the subsequent retellings:
Homer: The Iliad & the Odyssey (8th century BCE)
Aeschylus: Oresteia (458 BCE)
Euripides: Iphigenia in Tauris (414 BCE) & Iphigenia at Aulis (405 BCE)
Virgil: Aeneid (c. 20 BCE)
Anonymous: Le Roman d'Enéas (c. 1160)
Benoit de Sainte: Roman de Troie (c. 1155)
Guido delle Colonna: Historia Destructionis Troiae (1287)
Chaucer: Troilus and Criseyde (c. 1380)
Shakespeare: Troilus and Cressida (1602)
Racine: Iphigenie en Aulide (1674)
Goethe: Iphigenie auf Tauris (1787)
James Joyce: Ulysses (1922)
Marion Bradley: The Firebrand (1987)
Sheri Tepper: The Gate to Women's Country (1988)
Many other texts are mentioned and discussed.
The author: "When I began this project many years ago, I thought I would find 'solutions' to the problem of the Trojan War, why people destroy one another. I hoped that some of the great authors I was planning to explore would offer the kind of wisdom that could help people avoid future catastrophes. I was wrong. If Troy is the problem, the answer is always something like, 'if only ....'" (loc. 4642)
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