Recently finished my class in Ancient Greek Civilization, was required to do a book review x2 and a research paper. I decided to do the review on The War That Killed Achilles, after reading the book and posting the review I included a question to my Prof. " Has anyone ever put forth the possibility that the battle between the Acheans and Ilians was not over a women named Helen but the main trade artery into the black sea known as Hellespont? If this be so then Homers tale was a parable about the stupidity of total war. " My Prof. replied that he had never hear of such a thing, has any one on the list? If so either way get back with me might be a way of doing a bit of nosy historian research via books and the net