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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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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 war that killed Achilles : the true story of Homer's Iliad and the Trojan war / by Alexander, Caroline,1956-;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: Homer.; Achilles (Greek mythology); Trojan War; War in literature.;
© 2009., Viking,
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Surprise, Trojans! : the story of the Trojan horse / by Holub, Joan.; Jones, Dani,1983-;
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Subjects: Trojan horse (Greek mythology); 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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The Iliad and the Odyssey / by Williams, Marcia.;
Retells these classic Greek myths in a comic strip format characterized by irreverent humor.
Subjects: Trojan War.; Odysseus (Greek mythology); Mythology, Greek;
© c1996., Candlewick Press,
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Wrath goddess sing : a novel / by Deane, Maya,1985-author.;
"The gods wanted blood. She fought for love. Achilles has fled her home and her vicious Myrmidon clan to live as a woman with the kallai, the transgender priestesses of Great Mother Aphrodite. When Odysseus comes to recruit the "prince" Achilles for a waragainst the Hittites, she prepares to die rather than fight as a man. However, her divine mother, Athena, intervenes, transforming her body into the woman's body she always longed for, and promises her everything: glory, power, fame, victory in war, and,most importantly, a child born of her own body. Reunited with her beloved cousin, Patroklos, and his brilliant wife, the sorceress Meryapi, Achilles sets out to war with a vengeance. But the gods-a dysfunctional family of abusive immortals that have glutted on human sacrifices for centuries-have woven ancient schemes more blood-soaked and nightmarish than Achilles can imagine. At the center of it all is the cruel, immortal Helen, who sees Achilles as a worthy enemy after millennia of ennui and emptiness.In love with her newfound nemesis, Helen sets out to destroy everything and everyone Achilles cherishes, seeking a battle to the death. An innovative spin on a familiar tale, this is the Trojan War unlike anything ever told, and an Achilles whose vulnerability is revealed by the people she chooses to fight ... and chooses to trust"--
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Mythological fiction.; Novels.; Achilles (Mythological character); Trojan War;
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The Iliad [graphic novel] : a graphic novel / by Hinds, Gareth,author.;
Includes bibliographical references.
Subjects: Graphic novels.; Achilles (Greek mythology); Trojan War;
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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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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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