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THE MYTHS OF CREATION: THE GODS
Translated from the Russian by Christina Sever and Mila Bonnichsen (New York:
Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1996).
12. An excellent survey of the problems is given by Michael Wood, In Search of the Trojan
War (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996).
13. Details and quotations about the excavations come from the Newsletters of the
Friends of Troy, offered by the Institute for Mediterranean Studies in Cincinnati, and
A Guide to Troia, by the director of the excavations, Manfred Korfmann, and his staff,
Excavation Guides Series: 1 (Istanbul: Ege Press, revised edition, 1999). Scholarly annual
excavation reports appear in Studia Troica (Mainz: Ver lag Philipp von Zabern),
published in both German and English, which also includes interdisciplinary research
concerning Troy.
14. J. Lesley Fitton, in her survey of Bronze Age archaeology, The Discovery of the Greek
Bronze Age (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1996), sensibly observes
(p. 203): "It seems a sad decline to our modern recognition that the material remains
of a pre-literate society, incompletely recovered, can properly be expected only to answer
limited and impersonal questions." Nevertheless, she concludes (p. 197) that
"Without writing, 'proof [of the Trojan War] is well nigh unimaginable."
15. The argument for connecting Homer with the invention of the alphabet has been cogently
made by H. T. Wade-Gery, The Poet of the Iliad (New York: Cambridge University
Press, 1952). See also Barry B. Powell, Homer and the Origins of the Greek Alphabet
(New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991).