The few scholars that still maintain that the Homeric epics can be used as sources for the Bronze Age are exceptions. They include the late Ione Mylonas Shear, who wrote Tales of Heroes: The Origins of the Homeric Texts (2000), in which the author emphasized the “Mycenaean” elements of the Homeric epics (read the review by Jonathan Burgess). Another author is Joachim Latacz, who wrote Troy and Homer: Towards a Solution of an Old Mystery (a 2004-translation of the German book published in 2001). Latacz is well-known for having his subject run away with him and reviews of the book have generally not been kind, such as this one by Joshua T. Katz.