Troy

“Sing, O goddess, the anger of Achilles son of Peleus…” So begins Homer’s ‘Iliad’. Perhaps the very first sentence of Western literature tells the story of a rage; and the place where that rage played out is a low mound south of Çanakkale, overlooking the plain of the Kara Menderes: Hisarlık… So how does a rage live on for three thousand years?