Warriors in Bronze

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ISBN o 583 1290
s 6

First published by Peter Davies Ltd 1977
Copyright © George Shipway 1977

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Chronological Note

scholars
still dispute the chronology of the Greek Heroic
Age; hence it would be a rash scribbler who ventured on
definite dates. However, a distinguished archaeologist who
recently excavated Troy estimated the city's destruction by the
Achaeans at c. 1270
b.c.,
by which time their leader Agamemnon
may have been in his early forties. I have therefore placed his
lifetime in the years
13
12-1270
b.c.
The Greek legends from
Homer onwards, on which my tale is based, and in particular
the detailed genealogies they contain, do not in general con­tradict this time-scale
.