About this book: When Paris, prince of Troy, ran off with Helen, wife of the King of Sparta, it launched the greatest war of the mythic age of Greece. Heroes and gods assembled on both sides, as the combined armies of Greece launched a siege that would last for ten years. During that time, famous heroes such as Achilles, Ajax and Hector would find glory on the battlefield before being cut down. Others such as Agamemnon, Odysseus and Aeneas would survive the war, only to face even greater challenges afterwards.

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Thanks to the Iliad of Homer, and numerous other ancient sources, the story of the siege of Troy has survived over 3,000 years. In this new book in the Myths and Legends Series, Professor Si Sheppard draws together all of these ancient writings to tell the complete story of the Trojan war from the flight of the "face that launched a thousand ships" to the great wooden horse that brought the city to bloody ruin.

Contents:

Introduction

The Thousand Ships: Forbidden Fruit; The Warlords Assemble; Black Ships Bound for Troy

The Rage of Achilles: The Arrows of Apollo; Into Battle; Gods and Men; Trojan Ascendancy; An Embassy to Achilles; Hector at High Tide; Battle for the Ships; The Counterfeit Achilles; Patroclus Stands Alone; The Body of Patroclus; The Aristeia of Achilles; The Fate of Hector

The Wider War: Penthesilea, Queen of the Amazons; Memnon, King of the Ethiopians; Achilles at the Scaean Gates

Endgame - the Fall of Troy: The Next Generation: Eurpylus and Neoptolemus; The Fall of Paris; The Wooden Horse; Flame and Fortune; Aftermath

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