The Trojan War

Late last year I realized that I had missed the announcement of a new Greek novella, a little Greek book named Ὁ ἐπὶ Τροίᾱν Πόλεμος, or, The Trojan War. It's a retelling of the broader story of the Trojan war, beginning with the Judgement of Paris and extending beyond The Iliad. The book is a novella for Greek students early in their learning journey. The author, Seumas, has his own writeup here. Since I had recently finished reading Athenaze 1, I decided to give this a try.

What did I think? Foremost, I thought it was fun. The story of the Trojan War is an interesting one and this novella moves through it all at a good clip. Second, it makes the broader story approachable for early Greek readers. Third, we need more graded reading for Ancient Greek, and this adds an item to our list of resources. For this we can be thankful.

Who should read this? If you're past your elementary Greek learning, it's certainly a good book for you to read. Perhaps earlier since he calls it "Elementary-Mid." If you're somewhere in the long intermediate period of language learning, pick it up for some extensive reading. If you're interested in buying it, you can purchase it on the Storybase Books website.

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