Any prose books on Trojan War

[krishna_lit]

Are there any books on Trojan War that presents a descriptive take on it, more like a novel than the poetic one in Homer's 'Iliad'??? If so plz name them...

[Ecurb]

I like "Tales of Troy" by Andrew Lang. It retells the Iliad and the Odyssey -- but it also recounts the rest of the war (gleaned from The Aeneid and other accounts).

[mal4mac]

Rieu produced a prose translation for Penguin books. I gave up on the poetic translations I tried, but I managed to read Rieu all the way to the end. His prose translation of Homer's Odyssey is famous for being the first Penguin Classic, the one that launched the success of that series, and I found it an almost easy read :)

[grigioverde]

Are there any books on Trojan War that presents a descriptive take on it, more like a novel than the poetic one in Homer's 'Iliad'??? If so plz name them...

To better enjoy Tojan War you really need to read the poems (Iliad - Odyssey - Aineid), sure, if you - for your reasons - can't, you could try to find some prose translation of these works, something like "Iliad for school".

[Ecurb]

"Tales of Troy" (which I recommended earlier) is not a translation. Instead, it is a short version of the basic stories. I'm guessing that it includes the sort of knowledge that Greeks would have had BEFORE listening to Homer tell his poems. It's not a substitute for the Epics, though.

[ladderandbucket]

Robert Graves's The Greek Myths culminates in a 100 page retelling of the Trojan war and its aftermath, drawing on and referencing just about every possible source. The whole book is amazing guide to reading the classics.

[Volya]

I enjoyed the Troy series by David Gemmell - however it doesn't focus entirely on the events of the Trojan War and as far as I'm aware it takes a lot of artistic license.

[Diar624]

there is the newly published very short introduction to the trojan war, a scholarly archaeological view on it historically, published by Oxford University Press

[Vota]

The Greek Generals Talk: Memoirs of the Trojan War by Phillip Parotti

The Trojan Generals Talk by Phillip Parotti

Fires In The Sky by Phillip Parotti

A librarian friend of mine said these were really good.

[WICKES]

Robert Graves's The Greek Myths culminates in a 100 page retelling of the Trojan war and its aftermath, drawing on and referencing just about every possible source. The whole book is amazing guide to reading the classics.

Yes, I'll second that.