About Jonathan S. Burgess Jonathan S. Burgess is a professor of classics at the University of Toronto and author of The Tradition of the Trojan War in Homer and the Epic Cycle, also published by Johns Hopkins. Books by Jonathan S. Burgess The Death and Afterlife of Achilles by (author) Jonathan S. Burgess The Tradition of the Trojan War in Homer and the Epic Cycle by (author) Jonathan S. Burgess