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Troy : the myth and reality behind the epic legend / by McCarty, Nick,1940-;
Includes bibliographical references (p. [125]) and index.Cast of characters -- Map of Homer's Troy -- Who was Homer? -- Schliemann's quest -- The roots of war -- Schliemann's dream begins -- A terrible quarrel -- The first dig -- The gods of Olympus -- Hector: a trojan hero -- Mortal combat -- The tower of TroyTells the story of the city of Troy, interweaving myth with reality as Heinrich Schliemann searches for the lost city made famous by the epic poem The Iliad.
Subjects: Trojan War.;
© 2008., Rosen,
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The women of Troy : a novel / by Barker, Pat,1943-author.;
Held captive by the victorious Greeks, one time Trojan queen Briseis, formerly Achilles' slave, forges alliances when she can with Priam's aged wife, the defiant Hecuba, and the disgraced soothsayer Calchas, all the while shrewdly seeking her path to revenge.
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Trojan War;
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The silence of the girls / by Barker, Pat,1943-author.;
"From the Booker Prize-winning author of the Regeneration trilogy comes a monumental new masterpiece, set in the midst of literature's most famous war. Pat Barker turns her attention to the timeless legend of The Iliad, as experienced by the captured women living in the Greek camp in the final weeks of the Trojan War. The ancient city of Troy has withstood a decade under siege of the powerful Greek army, who continue to wage bloody war over a stolen woman--Helen. In the Greek camp, another woman watches and waits for the war's outcome: Briseis. She was queen of one of Troy's neighboring kingdoms, until Achilles, Greece's greatest warrior, sacked her city and murdered her husband and brothers. Briseis becomes Achilles's concubine, a prize of battle, and must adjust quickly in order to survive a radically different life, as one of the many conquered women who serve the Greek army. When Agamemnon, the brutal political leader of the Greek forces, demands Briseis for himself, she finds herself caught between the two most powerful of the Greeks. Achilles refuses to fight in protest, and the Greeks begin to lose ground to their Trojan opponents. Keenly observant and cooly unflinching about the daily horrors of war, Briseis finds herself in an unprecedented position to observe the two men driving the Greek forces in what will become their final confrontation, deciding the fate, not only of Briseis's people, but also of the ancient world at large. Briseis is just one among thousands of women living behind the scenes in this war--the slaves and prostitutes, the nurses, the women who lay out the dead--all of them erased by history. With breathtaking historical detail and luminous prose, Pat Barker brings the teeming world of the Greek camp to vivid life. She offers nuanced, complex portraits of characters and stories familiar from mythology, which, seen from Briseis's perspective, are rife with newfound revelations. Barker's latest builds on her decades-long study of war and its impact on individual lives--and it is nothing short of magnificent"--
Subjects: War fiction.; Historical fiction.; Trojan War;
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Investigating Atlantis and other lost cities / by Wolny, Philip.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.LSC
Subjects: Atlantis (Legendary place); Extinct cities; Archaeology;
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River god / by Smith, Wilbur A.,author.;
Two thousand years before Christ, the ancient heartland of the Nile Kings is enveloped in Civil War and Taita, a eunuch slave, schemes.
Subjects: Action and adventure fiction.; Historical fiction.; Eunuchs; Slaves;
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The destruction of Pompeii, AD 79 / by Tarshis, Lauren.; Dawson, Scott.;
4.0.007-010.
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Survival;
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A thousand ships : a novel / by Haynes, Natalie,author.;
A retelling of the Trojan War from the perspectives of its women follows the stories of a vigil-keeping Penelope, an Amazon princess rival of Achilles, and three goddesses whose feud sparks a tragic conflict.
Subjects: Historical fiction.; War fiction.; Trojan War; Trojan War; Goddesses, Greek; Mythology, Greek;
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Pompeii / by Sonneborn, Liz.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Discovering Herculaneum -- Learning to excavate -- Weber's mission -- Exploring Pompeii -- A proposal for the accademia -- Criticism and praise -- Epilogue.Describes the discovery and excavation of the Roman cities of Herculaneum and Pompeii that were buried in lava and ash by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79.
Subjects: Excavations (Archaeology); Excavations (Archaeology);
© 2008., Twenty-First Century,
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The voyage home : a novel / by Barker, Pat,1943-author.;
"From the Booker Prize-winning author of The Regeneration Trilogy comes the powerful third installment to the Women of Troy series. I never saw Cassandra as a victim. I saw a woman as focused on a single aim as any raptor stooping to its prey; but then, I had more opportunities to observe her ruthlessness than most. I was in her power, you see. I was her slave. Pat Barker has crafted the latest in a brilliant reimagining of Greek mythology, and The Voyage Home is the work of a writer at the height of her powers. In this third outing, she follows the young Ritsa and the unpredictable Cassandra on their perilous return journey to Mycenae. Cassandra has acquired the powers of prophecy from the kiss of Apollo, but the very same god has taken away the people's belief in her abilities. Though she warns of the carnage that awaits the Greek warrior king Agamemnon-who numbs himself with alcohol on the storm-plagued trip home-her shipmates disregard her. While Cassandra's prophecies fall on deaf ears, Ritsa instead remains focused on surviving once they make land. When a mysterious young girl begins to shadow them, and Agamemnon's cruelty takes a new turn, Ritsa must find a safe place for Cassandra, whose mood alternates between cruelty and frenzy. But it's the ongoing ire between Queen Clytemnestra and Agamemnon that could prove fatal for everyone. In The Voyage Home, Barker elevates myth and legend and asks us to examine the stories we hold dear through a feminist lens, and in doing so she has crafted a tale that upholds her legacy as one of our finest contemporary novelists"--
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Novels.; Cassandra (Legendary character); Clytemnestra, Queen of Mycenae; Trojan War;
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The Falcon of Sparta / by Iggulden, Conn,author.;
In the Ancient World, one army was feared above all others. 401 BC. The Persian king Artaxerxes rules an empire stretching from the Aegean to northern India. As many as fifty million people are his subjects. His rule is absolute. Though the sons of Sparta are eager to play the game of thrones ... Yet battles can be won - or lost - with a single blow. Princes fall. And when the dust of civil war settles, the Spartans are left stranded in the heart of an enemy's empire, without support, without food and without water. Far from home, surrounded by foes, it falls to the young soldier Xenophon to lead the survivors against Artaxerxes' legendary Persian warriors. Based on one of history's most epic stories of adventure The Falcon of Sparta masterfully depicts the ferocity, heroism, and savage bloodshed that was the Ancient World.
Subjects: War fiction.; Historical fiction.; Biographical fiction.; Artaxerxes I, King of Persia, -425 B.C. or 424 B.C.;
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