A Middle English Iliad: John Lydgate's Troy Book: A Modern Translation (The Troy Myth in Medieval Britain Book 1) by D.M. Smith, John Lydgate

A Middle English Iliad: John Lydgate's Troy Book: A Modern Translation (The Troy Myth in Medieval Britain Book 1)

D.M. Smith, John Lydgate

740 pages first pub 2018 (editions)

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In medieval Britain, the works of Homer were practically unknown. In his absence, the half-remembered story of the Trojan War took on a distinctly Arthurian flavour, with the heroes Achilles and Hector reimagined as armoured knights on horseback, ...

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