Doctor of Political Science, politician and writer Andrei Nikolaevich Savelyev is known for his impartial statements on many issues of modern life. But this time the reader can discover a new Andrei Savelyev - a philosopher and historian, a researcher of one of the most ancient and greatest epic works - Homer’s Iliad. “A society that rejected the classical education system, in which ancient culture occupied a central place, ceased to be interested in Homer, giving Homeric studies into the hands of “specialists” who turned the study of Homer’s epic into a means of imitating scholarship and profaning science,” the author believes, not unreasonably. Instead of a historical reconstruction of the events of the Trojan War, profaners pour from empty to empty, trying to prove that the brilliant work of Homer is just a beautiful fiction. What was the Trojan War really like - the watershed between millennia of archaic history almost unknown to us and Antiquity, with which has the countdown of the past familiar to us from written sources begun? Did the heroes of the Ancient World live, fight, and suffer - Achilles, Hector, Odysseus, Paris, Helen the Beautiful - or are they just a myth created by a great poet? When was The Iliad written? Who was its author? Andrei Savelyev creates his reconstruction of the first great European war based on an analysis of the Iliad and other documents that have survived to this day, describing events three thousand years ago.