The symbiosis between literary fictions, history, and archaeology that is characteristic of Homeric scholarship is at the heart of this multidisciplinary collection. In the introduction to the volume, the editors, Susan Sherratt and John Bennet, set out an ambitious plan to avoid the snares of dichotomous thinking—i.e., simple questions of Homer’s historical “truth” or lack thereof—in favor of “exploring a variety of other, perhaps sometimes more oblique, ways in which we can use archaeology, and also philology, anthropology and social history, to help offer insights into the epics” (viii) and their ancient and modern contexts. This approach is appealing, and the volume for the most part succeeds in this goal. Such breadth is likewise a demonstration of the editors’ characterization of epic as “all things to all people” (xv), and the ten articles are from leading scholars in fields ranging from archaeology to Slavic literature to modern Greek history. On the other hand, as a result of the editors’ commitment to a variety of perspectives (for an already rather broad topic), the collection can come across as somewhat unfocused. Several of the contributions deal with archaeology or epic rather than the interface between them, while the closing chapters are concerned with epic outside of the strictly Homeric tradition; much of these chapters focus on modern issues. While this range may come as a surprise to some readers based on the title alone, nonetheless, it will also be a welcome one. The inclusion of more recent material, including, for example, contemporary reception of archaeological work at Troy and the active creation of an epic tradition in the Balkans, is particularly engaging.