The Iliad : the Trojan war / retold by Menelaos Stephanides, drawings by Yannis Stephanides ; translation Bruce Walter.

By:

Stephanides, Menelaos [author]

Contributor(s):

Stephanides, Giannes D [illustrator]

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Stephanides brother's Greek mythologyPublication details: Athens : Sigma, 2012.Edition: 9th runDescription: 254 pages : illustrations ; 17 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9789604250592

Subject(s):

Trojan War -- Poetry

DDC classification:

883.01

Contents:

Before the war -- The sacrifice of Iphigeneia -- Nine years of war -- Homer's Iliad -- The last days of Troy -- The author of the Iliad and the Odyssey.

Summary: "All that mythology tells us of the history of Troy, form its founding until its final destruction in the famous war. Why the quarrel started, the sacrifice of Iphigenia, the nine years of fighting, the last days of Troy, the Trojan horse. A special chapter is devoted to the Iliad, the fifty days of war described by Homer which takes the anger of Achilles as its theme. This great epic poem is presented in an extended summary, with some of its finest passages given in full. For the poetry of Homer's language often rises to heights of incomparable beauty, as in the parting of Hector from Andromache, or the scene at the end of the 'Iliad' in which Priam asks Achilles for the body of his son." -- Publisher's description.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
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Before the war -- The sacrifice of Iphigeneia -- Nine years of war -- Homer's Iliad -- The last days of Troy -- The author of the Iliad and the Odyssey.

"All that mythology tells us of the history of Troy, form its founding until its final destruction in the famous war. Why the quarrel started, the sacrifice of Iphigenia, the nine years of fighting, the last days of Troy, the Trojan horse. A special chapter is devoted to the Iliad, the fifty days of war described by Homer which takes the anger of Achilles as its theme. This great epic poem is presented in an extended summary, with some of its finest passages given in full. For the poetry of Homer's language often rises to heights of incomparable beauty, as in the parting of Hector from Andromache, or the scene at the end of the 'Iliad' in which Priam asks Achilles for the body of his son." -- Publisher's description.