Description |
244 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Contents |
The golden apple -- Helen -- The madness of Odysseus -- The discovery of Achilles -- Iphigenia -- The Trojan princes -- The foremost man -- The host musters -- Troilus and Cressida -- The time of discouragement -- The quarrel -- The combat -- Hector and Andromache -- A night adventure -- The death of Patroclus -- The death of Hector -- Funeral games -- The ransom -- The queen of the Amazons -- The last fight of Achilles -- The armor of Achilles -- Pyrrhus -- The bow of Heracles -- Oenone -- The taking of the Palladium -- The Trojan horse -- The sack of Troy -- The women -- Agamemnon's death -- The adventures of Menelaus -- Nestor at home -- In the house of the swineherd -- The bow is bent. |
Summary |
Retells legends of the heroes of the Trojan War, which began with Paris of Troy's abduction of Helen, wife of Menelaus, lord of Greece. |
Subject |
Trojan War -- Juvenile literature.
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Turkey -- Antiquities -- Juvenile literature.
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Trojan War.
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