In Search of the Trojan War

Was there a historical Trojan War behind the story told by Homer? In In Search of the Trojan War, Michael Wood follows the evidence from the ruins of Troy and the palatial centres of Mycenaean Greece to Hittite records and the later Greek epic tradition, asking how archaeology, texts and legend can be brought together.

Wood traces the discoveries and debates that have shaped modern understanding of Late Bronze Age Troy, while introducing the people, places and conflicts that may lie behind the Iliad. Combining archaeological investigation with historical narrative and travel, the book is an accessible exploration of one of antiquity’s most enduring problems: the relationship between the Trojan legend and the world of the second millennium BCE.