The Silence of the Girls
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The ancient city of Troy has withstood a decade under siege of the powerful Greek army, which...
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Fall of Kings (Troy #3)
Stella Gemmell and David Gemmell
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Darkness falls on the Great Green and the Ancient World is fiercely divided. On the killing...
A Mist of Prophecies
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One afternoon as Gordianus the Finder is crossing the marketplace, a beautiful young seeress...
For those of you not in the know The Iliad is Homers epic poem about the Trojan war, this version was translated by EV Rieu.
What can I say about this, without sounding like a complete philistine? It is essentially a Soap Opera based around testosterone fuelled macho men and a bunch of Gods having a hissy fit! I loved it!
Crivens, there’s a lot of people in it though!! It did take me a little while to get into it, and being a little rusty on my Greek mythology I kept forgetting who was on whose side, but I eventually found my stride, and if you can wade through all the different ways that different people were killed (Homer does really like describing how each person died, potentially the Tarantino of his day!) It is a really detailed account of a mythological war that inspired a whole wealth of literature, and I can see why it is a classic.
The Penelopiad
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For Penelope, wife of Odysseus, maintaining a kingdom while her husband was off fighting the Trojan...
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The Song of Achilles
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Greece in the age of Heroes. Patroclus, an awkward young prince, has been exiled to the kingdom of...
Agamemnon
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A new verse translation of Agamemnon, the first play in Aeschylus's trilogy The Oresteia. Agamemnon,...
The Library of Greek Mythology
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The only work of its kind to survive from classical antiquity, the Library of Apollodorus is a...
Lyndsey Gollogly (2893 KP) rated Troy in Books
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Troy (Mythos book 3)
By Stephen Fry
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
AN EPIC BATTLE THAT LASTED TEN YEARS. A LEGENDARY STORY THAT HAS SURVIVED THOUSANDS.
'An inimitable retelling of the siege of Troy . . . Fry's narrative, artfully humorous and rich in detail, breathes life and contemporary relevance into these ancient tales'OBSERVER
'Stephen Fry has done it again. Well written and super storytelling' 5***** READER REVIEW
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'Troy. The most marvellous kingdom in all the world. The Jewel of the Aegean. Glittering Ilion, the city that rose and fell not once but twice . . .'
When Helen, the beautiful Greek queen, is kidnapped by the Trojan prince Paris, the most legendary war of all time begins.
Watch in awe as a thousand ships are launched against the great city of Troy.
Feel the fury of the battleground as the Trojans stand resolutely against Greek might for an entire decade.
And witness the epic climax - the wooden horse, delivered to the city of Troy in a masterclass of deception by the Greeks . . .
In Stephen Fry's exceptional retelling of our greatest story, TROY will transport you to the depths of ancient Greece and beyond.
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I love Greek Mythology and Stephen Fry is one of my favourite people. All through this book his voice was in my head. Brilliant retellings and underlying humour. Brilliant!