The Trojan War in Literature

I mentioned that the Trojan War has been active in Western Literature.  Here is a good list from Wikipedia to show that.  It begins with Homer, of course, then mentions several poems by Saphho and others.  It lists no less than 17 different plays by Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides and others.  And that's just the Greeks!  The Romans talked about it with Virgil and Ovid.  Several medieval authors took a crack at it and the English are represented by Chaucer, Shakespeare, Marlowe and others.  This is an amazing amount of writing.  The only rival in terms of quality and quantity in Western literature is the Bible.

What's the intersection for our reading list?

• In Year Two we read The 'Iliad' first and the followed that up with the works of Aeschylus, 'Agamemnon', 'the Libation Bearers' and 'Eumenides'.
• Year Three has brought us Chaucer's tale of lost love, 'Troilus and Cressida'.
• Year Four will start out with Euripides.  Four different plays, among them 'Trojan Women'.
• In Year Five we'll cover Virgil with 'The Aeneid'.
• Next up, Year Six, we'll go back to Homer with 'The Odyssey'.
• And then a break until Year Ten when we open with Sophocles 'Ajax' and 'Electra'.  

That's nine different pieces, or about 5% of the total works in this reading list.  That's a lot.