50 THE MYTHS OF CREATION: THE GODS
Translated from the Russian by Christina Sever and Mila Bonnichsen (New York:
Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1996).- An excellent survey of the problems is given by Michael Wood, In Search of the Tro-
jan War (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996). - 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 an-
nual 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. - 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 an-
swer limited and impersonal questions." Nevertheless, she concludes (p. 197) that
"Without writing, 'proof [of the Trojan War] is well nigh unimaginable." - The argument for connecting Homer with the invention of the alphabet has been co-
gently made by H. T. Wade-Gery, The Poet of the Iliad (New York: Cambridge Uni-
versity Press, 1952). See also Barry B. Powell, Homer and the Origins of the Greek Al-
phabet (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991).