The World of Legendary Greece

Leon Amiel, 1975

What was it like in Greece at the time of the Trojan War? What sort of people lived there, what Gods did they worship, what kingdoms did they found, what civilizations did they create? Even a Socrates only learned of these ancient times from the romantic accounts of the myths, the legends and the epics. Following up this testimony with the help of archaeology, we catch a glimpse of prehistoric times, the era of the Pelagians, the periods of the tribal migrations and the invasion of new peoples. We witness the Age of the Cyclops and the refined luxurious world of King Minos of Crete and the Mycenaean epoch. Step by step we arrive at the times and places where Helen of Troy, Menelaus and Agememnon, the valiant Achilles and the crafty Odysseus lived or might have lived. These are times in which Hellenism as we know and admire it first began to take shape and to develop. Yet, here too, what a profusion of colourful lives emerges from the mists of the Greek sagas,,,