A nifty resource for the Trojan War

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I hadn't thought of it, but for anyone wanting to run a Trojan War-era game, The World of Odysseus, by Michael Finley, is probably the perfect resource for the game. It's not a very big or expensive book ($10 US) on Amazon, but it describes numerous aspects of the society of the poems that would help to run a Homeric game. The importance of gift-giving, guest-friendship, blood feuds, the commoners, etc...