The Iliad
Homer, E.V. Rieu and Peter Jones
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A stunning Penguin clothbound edition of Homer's great epic, in E. V. Rieu's classic translation....
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...
The Odyssey
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Fresh from his triumphs in the Trojan War, Odysseus, King of Ithaca, wants nothing more than to...
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,...