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In 2026 I found myself scrolling through war news trying to make sense of it, and at some point I asked myself: if Homer had lived today, could he have read the Iliad from a feed? Troy is the answer to that question.

It isn't a political work and it isn't about any particular conflict. It's a retelling of the myth through the grammar we use, today, to report on anything at all: news outlets, live coverage, push notifications, anonymous voices, official statements, leaked photos, posts that get taken down. What changes, from Homer to now, isn't what happens — it's the form in which it reaches us.

The idea came all at once, over a few weeks. But I'd dreamed for years of writing a retelling of the Iliad, which remains one of the books that shaped me. When the idea arrived, it was already finished — it had only been waiting for the right moment, and probably the right medium.

The work can be read however you like. Front to back, back to front, in jumps, in fragments, across several sittings, once, ten times. The structure is available for any path through it. The natural scroll runs from the fall of the city to the evening it all began — but the reader who wants to start from the end, or enter through a single section, is making an equally legitimate reading.

Troy is free and open. It can be read, shared, quoted, archived, criticized, parodied.

For those who fell interpreting the Iliad.