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Trojan Women: A Novel of the Fall of Troy

Byrne R.S. Fone

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Description:Trojan Women re-imagines the war at Troy in the voices of the women who are seen but rarely heard in Homer’s Iliad. Among them are Chryseis whose capture by Achilles leads to the devastating plague brought upon the Greeks, Briseis, a minor player in the Iliad, but a major one in this book. From within the beseiged city of Troy, Hecabe, Queen of Troy, Andromache, Hector’s wife, and Kassandra, Hecabe’s and Priam’s daughter, whose prophecies of the terrible end of the city no will believe, look from their walls and see the terrible threat that will destroy them. And of course Helen, the pawn over whom the war is fought and because of whom the thousand ships were launched, waits to see who will win her and what her fate will be.For Homer, Troy was no myth and the war that destroyed it was real, an event that has resonated down the ages from the time that Troy’s walls were razed by Agamemnon to our own. Trojan Women is both a deeply personal and an epic story of the women whose stories are noted only in passing by Homer, but who were the primary victims of this violent clash of culures that has come down to us an an example of the horrors of war.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Trojan Women: A Novel of the Fall of Troy. To get started finding Trojan Women: A Novel of the Fall of Troy, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: Trojan Women re-imagines the war at Troy in the voices of the women who are seen but rarely heard in Homer’s Iliad. Among them are Chryseis whose capture by Achilles leads to the devastating plague brought upon the Greeks, Briseis, a minor player in the Iliad, but a major one in this book. From within the beseiged city of Troy, Hecabe, Queen of Troy, Andromache, Hector’s wife, and Kassandra, Hecabe’s and Priam’s daughter, whose prophecies of the terrible end of the city no will believe, look from their walls and see the terrible threat that will destroy them. And of course Helen, the pawn over whom the war is fought and because of whom the thousand ships were launched, waits to see who will win her and what her fate will be.For Homer, Troy was no myth and the war that destroyed it was real, an event that has resonated down the ages from the time that Troy’s walls were razed by Agamemnon to our own. Trojan Women is both a deeply personal and an epic story of the women whose stories are noted only in passing by Homer, but who were the primary victims of this violent clash of culures that has come down to us an an example of the horrors of war.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Trojan Women: A Novel of the Fall of Troy. To get started finding Trojan Women: A Novel of the Fall of Troy, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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