What is this book about? This book is about an exciting journey to Troy, both ancient and modern. About the fact that the Trojans defeated the Greeks (not the other way around, as is commonly believed). And that the well-known Greek religion with its anthropomorphism was created artificially for political reasons. The authors assert that the information warfare, the falsification of history – is not an innovation, but the oldest essence of Western way of thinking. The book refutes the conventional wisdom that “history is written by the winners.” On the contrary, authors have shown: those who write history become winners. The book is written in bright, vivid and interesting manner for laymen. At the same time it is absolutely scientific and opposed fancy sensational historical fast food. This book is about the struggle for historical truth and justice, which roots us in the world, because without the truth we are orphans.
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Олег Матвейчев. Trojan Horse of Western History
Alternative Introduction
Chapter 1. Mega-mall to megaron. Pilgrimage to the land of Homer
Chapter 2. The Adventurer Who Tripped Over Troy
Chapter 3. The War for Troy, 20[[th]] century
Chapter 4. And they came back in disgrace…
Chapter 5. The Poet who composed Greece
In Lieu of an Afterword. Two hours of Turkish Tea
Antique Writers
Selected bibliography
Отрывок из книги
We’ve decided not to write a traditional foreword, but to offer ten different answers to the question of what kind of book we have produced, instead.
Here they are:
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Fig. 5. Franz Matsch. Triumph of Achilles (1892).
At night, Priam quietly came to Achilles’ camp and begged the Champion to return his son’s body. Shocked by the old man’s courage and torn by guilt for his friend’s death, Achilles agreed to his request.
