Author
Iman Jacob Wilkens was born in the Netherlands in 1936, and educated in Economics at Amsterdam Municipal University. Since 1966 he has been living in France where for more than thirty years he has done research on Homer. On 26 May 1992 he gave a lecture, "The Trojan Kings of England", to the Herodoteans, a student classical society of the University of Cambridge.
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