The Trojan War (36 page)

CHRYSE.
The cove in the center of the photograph may be the harbor of ancient Chryse. Agamemnon's beautiful captive, Chryseis, was brought back here by ship to her father, the priest Chryses.
(Barry Strauss)

CAPE LEKTON.
A rugged headland at the southwestern tip of the Troad. Raiders heading from Troy to the Gulf of Edremit would have sailed past this spot.
(Barry Strauss)

GULF OF EDREMIT.
A view, through olive trees, toward the mountains above Edremit (ancient Adramyttium), taken from near the presumed site of Thebes-under-Plakos.
(Barry Strauss)

EVIDENCE OF WAR?
These arrow- and spearheads were found in the excavations at Troy.
(Troia Project Archives/Dogan Burda Magazine)

ODYSSEUS.
The hero is shown speaking, dressed in a felt cap, cloak, and scabbard, on this chalcedony ring stone from Crete, 400–350
B.C.
(Bildarchiv Preussischer Kulturbesitz/Art Resource, NY)

MENELAUS THREATENING HELEN.
The king draws a sword on his wayward wife in this red-figure Attic amphora by the Oltos Painter, 525–515
B.C.
(Réunion des Musées Nationaux/Art Resource, NY)

WARRIORS AT REST.
Achilles and Ajax play dice in this black-figure vase from the sixth to fourth centuries
B.C.
(Réunion des Musées Nationaux/Art Resource, NY)

TROY LAID LOW.
Achilles drags the body of Hector behind his chariot. Black-figure vase, Diosphos Painter, sixth to fifth centuries
B.C.
(Réunion des Musées Nationaux/Art Resource, NY)

TROJAN HORSE VASE.
Detail of the neck of a Cycladic relief vase, depicting the Greek warriors inside the Horse, 675–650
B.C.
(Mykonos Museum/Hellenic Republic, Ministry of Culture)

MYCENAEAN ARMOR.
This suit of bronze body armor was found in a tomb at Dendra, not far from Mycenae, and is dated to the late 1400s
B.C.
(Eleutherios Feiler, D-DAI-ATH-Argolis 691, All Rights Reserved)

MYCENAEAN WARRIORS.
This sherd from Tiryns shows parts of two body shields, a spear, and a boar's-tusk helmet.
(D-DAI-ATH-Tiryns-Archiv 1979/015, All Rights Reserved)