In Search of His Palace, His Family, Homer, the War, and the Bronze Age
Mediterranean
Nonfiction
Date Published: October 30, 2024
Publisher: Mindstir Media
The Bronze Age Mediterranean, 3200 1200 BC, was a period of high movement,
intrigue, and warfare. In this book, the author, through extensive research
with “Boots on the Ground,” provides a new, cohesive, and
comprehensive view of that age, the evolution of the Greeks into the
Mediterranean, the kings and commander with their fortresses and palaces,
and capped in the final years with Homer’s war, “The Greatest War Story
Ever Told.” He describes not only how the Greek hero Achilles and
events of that war leave a lasting legacy but also weaves in five
generations of the family of Achilles, the truth about Homer and his war,
and solves the mystery of the palace site of Achilles and his father Peleus.
Excavations of Troy from 1871 to the present are revealed as are the
discovered clay tablets of the Hittites identifying numerous wars at Troy
and along the Aegean Sea in western Anatolia. The ultimate collapse of the
Bronze Age and its kingdoms brings this author’s epic saga to its final
conclusion, the devastation of that end period harboring ominous signs for
our own world today.
Early Reviews
A general reader, Jason Breyer, Palm Harbor, FL, working with the UPS, said
of the book, “I couldn’t put the book down. I was absorbed in fact
versus myth and I had to keep on reading.”
A Publishing Director, Danielle Allan, Boston, MA, with Mindstir Media,
stated, “Your manuscript is fascinating. The book captures powerful
storytelling while leading the reader through your adventures and combining
them with legendary stories.”
Another reader, Alexander Lardis, Annapolis, MD, a Senior Scientist
(retired) with the U. S. Government, said, “The research is phenomenal,
well-documented, and with a wealth of information. It was fascinating. I
left feeling I had read a great story.”
EXCERPT
His tomb lies on the plains of Troy, a mound of earth some 30 feet (9 m.) in height
and crowned by large white stones. Today it is an isolated spot along the far northeastern
Aegean coast, far from his homeland on mainland Greece, visited by no one, some 7 miles
(11 km.) southwest of the citadel, the fortress of Troy, whose once massive walls repelled
the Greek armada of over 1000 ships and the thousands of battle-tested Greek warriors.
Yes, he was the fiercest and the most courageous amongst them—the great Achilles. No
tourist visits the tomb. It is now a desolate area surrounded by farmland and rolling terrain
with the Aegean Sea a stone’s throw to the west. It was here along the coast that the armada
landed and set up camp, a rather secluded coast protected from the winds streaming out of
Thrace to the north and the Hellespont, today’s modern Dardanelles strait. It was here that
the war began between the Greeks and the Trojans, Homer’s Trojan War, that 10-year long
struggle in which it was prophesized Achilles would die. But in his death, he rises above
all other Greek warriors. He is the hero. His immortality is secured and the legend begins.
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