Ilios is a re-imagining of the oldest and the greatest story in Western literature, indeed what many have called the foundation text, the epic clash of cultures we call the Trojan War as first told by Homer in The Iliad--a title that Homer did not give to his poem. But all later readers, in Greek, called it the Poem of Ilios, the epic title derived from the city of Ilios--the city later called Troia, that we know as Troy. In a thousand ships, it is...