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Author
Publisher
Blackstone Audio Books
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
Born and raised in a Longford, Ireland workhouse, Padraic Colum left home at seventeen to become a clerk in the Irish Railway Clearing House in Dublin. This venture was short-lived, however, and with the success of a few poems and a play, "The Saxon Shillin'," in 1904 he went on to pursue a career in writing. His success as a dramatist, poet, novelist, essayist, biographer, children's writer, and editor, as well as his participation in the founding...
Author
Publisher
Paul Dry Books
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
In this work the author conveys the uniques delights of Homer's epics as she focuses on the crucial scenes, or moments, that mark the high pints of the narratives: Penelope and Odysseus meet for the first time in twenty years; young Telemachus boldly confronts the angry suitors; Achilles gives way to boundless grief at the death of Patroclus. The author demonstrates a way of reading Homer's poems that yields up their hidden treasures. With an alert...
Author
Series
Twayne's English authors ; 499
Publisher
Twayne Publishers
Pub. Date
[1993]
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Language
English
Formats
Description
When renowned beauty Helen runs off to Troy with Prince Paris, her enraged husband, King Menelaus, starts the Trojan War, leaving their plain daughter, Hermione, alone to witness the deaths of heroes on both sides and longing to find her own love and place in the world. Includes historical notes.
46) The Trojan horse
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
[1992]
Language
English
Description
A retelling of how the Greeks used a wooden horse to win the ten-year-long Trojan War.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Considered one of Chaucer's finest poems, second only to The Canterbury Tales in richness and depth, Troilus and Cressida is a tragic love story set against the background of the siege of Troy by the Greeks.
Written in the 1380s, it presents Troilus, son of Priam and younger brother of Hector, as a Trojan warrior of renown who sees, and falls deeply in love with, the beautiful Cressida. Cressida is the daughter of Calchas, a Trojan priest and seer...
Author
Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Here is a new comic-book version of Euripides's classic The Trojan Women, which follows the fates of Hekabe, Andromache, and Kassandra after Troy has been sacked and all its men killed. This collaboration between the visual artist Rosanna Bruno and the poet and classicist Anne Carson attempts to give a genuine representation of how human beings are affected by warfare. Therefore, all the characters take the form of animals (except Kassandra, whose...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Homer's Iliad can justly be called the world's greatest war epic. The terrible and long-drawn-out siege of Troy remains one of the classic campaigns, the heroism and treachery of its combatants unmatched in song and story. Driven by fierce passions and loyalties, men and gods battle to a devastating conclusion.
"Homer is full of merriment, full of open fun and delicate comedy, even farce—as when Ares, wounded, bursts up to Olympus like
...51) The Iliad
Author
Publisher
Kingfisher
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
Retells the events of the war between Greece and the city of Troy, focusing on Achilles' quarrel with Agamemnon.
52) Troy
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
Told from the point of view of the women of Troy, portrays the last weeks of the Trojan War, when women are sick of tending the wounded, men are tired of fighting, and bored gods and goddesses find ways to stir things up.
Author
Series
Delphic women ; 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Cassandra, the golden haired princess cursed with the gift of prophecy, and Diomenes, the Achean with the healing hands, become the leading players in this compelling story of the fall of Troy. Both have found love before, and lost it. Will they find each other in the light of the burning city? And, if they do, can their love survive the machinations of malicious gods and men?
Author
Publisher
PowerKids Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Achilles was a legendary warrior of ancient Greece. When Paris, the Trojan prince, kidnapped the beautiful Helen, the Greek armies joined together under the great king Agamemnon to bring her back. The Achaean Greeks would fight the Trojans for 10 years. Agamemnon's pride, however, would threaten to destroy the Achaeans' chances of victory. When he took Achilles' battle prize, Achilles refused to fight. Of all the Achaeans, though, only Achilles could...
59) The Trojan horse
Author
Series
Publisher
Raintree Childrens Books
Pub. Date
[1985]
Language
English
Description
Recounts how the Greeks won the Trojan War by the subterfuge ofthe wooden horse.
60) Troy
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2005], [i.e. 2004]
Language
English
Description
In 1193 B.C., Prince Paris, the son of the King of Troy falls in love with Helen, the wife of the king of Sparta, and convinces her to follow him away from her husband, Menelaus, the result is an epic war. The Greeks sail to Troy and lay siege. Achilles, the greatest warrior in all the world, is called in to fight against Troy and give Greece the upper hand. Hector, the eldest son of Priam, King of Troy, and the greatest Trojan warrior embodies the...
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