I just read this again, it is so good!

A great read. Based on a historical event, this novel is about one of the greatest love affairs of ancient times. This is a gripping tale of love, of war and the fall of the city of Troy.

Revisión de la Iliada despojada de factores mágicos, divinos y míticos. Los héroes, por ejemplo, son bastardos, lo que explica que sean hijos de mujer y dios. Ese punto desmitificador está bien, pero la alternancia de puntos de vista en la narración no cuaja. Se deja leer.

Everyone loves the Trojan War and you can't call yourself any kind of historian (amateur or otherwise) until you have a handful under your belt at least between histories and various re-tellings of the tale as writers try their own hand at this classic.

McCullough uses an interesting blend of modern and archaic language to make the reader feel at times as if some sentences are lifted straight out of the Iliad and at other times as if you're reading a completely modern book. Each chapter is narrated and from the viewpoint of one of the major characters so that there is no central figure but it instead jumps around from one person to the next among all the main protagonists.

McCullough's isn't bad. I'm biased though because David Gemmell's trilogy has set the standard as far as re-tellings go. If you're going to read only one rehashed tale of the Trojan War, make it David Gemmell's.