Been working on a book from the POV of Helen of Troy. Finally someone's actually reading the draft. Hoping for some input.
I don't know if I'll ever publish it or not, I just need to write it, either way.
The story kicked around in my head for something like 20 or 25 years. I made lots of notes off & on but didn't actually start writing the narrative until about 3 years ago.
I now have a draft that's over 300 pages long. It's very rough & inconsistent, but it's a draft, so it's supposed to be that way.
Heh & I've done so much research, I probably know more about the Trojan War than Homer did; & know more about the Mycenaean world than I ever thought I would.
& even if I hadn't been doing the research for the book, the time period in question is hella interesting: the legendary war happened right around the same time as the Bronze Age Collapse.
Which was this massive collapse of multiple cities & civilizations around the Eastern Mediterranean in the 12th century BCE, & nobody quite knows why.
Mycenean states took a hit, the Hittite Empire fell, Egypt was invaded & never completely recovered, cities like Pylos & Ugarit were entirely wiped off the map & never repopulated, & this mysterious group called the Sea Peoples emerged & raided a bunch of places.
@Impious_Jade Bronze Age collapse seems to be a hot topic these days. Sort of wonder why… 🤔
@Impious_Jade I did a paper in college on the depiction of sea peoples weapons at Medinet Habu and whether they could identify possible origins
& as far as anyone can tell so far, it wasn't down to just one thing: there was some famine, but not widespread; there were raids by pirates or invaders, but not everywhere; there were some economic changes & natural disasters, but nothing that should've brought entire nations down...