Homer's epics reflect an eighth-century BCE world of warrior tribes
that were fractured by constant strife; aside from its fantastic
scale, nothing is exceptional about Troy's conquest by the Greeks.
Using a fascinating and innovative approach, Professor Gottschall
analyses Homeric conflict from the perspective of modern
evolutionary biology, attributing its intensity to a shortage of
available young women. The warrior practice of taking enemy women
as slaves and concubines meant that women were concentrated in the
households of powerful men. In turn, this shortage drove men to
compete fiercely over women: almost all the main conflicts of the
Iliad and Odyssey can be traced back to disputes over women. The
Rape of Troy integrates biological and humanistic understanding -
biological theory is used to explore the ultimate sources of
pitched Homeric conflict, and Homeric society is the subject of a
bio-anthropological case study of why men fight.
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