Siege Of Troy
Siege Of Troy In this perceptive retelling of The Iliad, a young Greek teacher draws on the enduring power of myth to help her students cope with the terrors of Nazi occupation.Bombs fall over a…
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Siege Of Troy
In this perceptive retelling of The Iliad, a young Greek teacher draws on the enduring power of myth to help her students cope with the terrors of Nazi occupation.Bombs fall over a Greek village during World War II, and a teacher takes her students to a cave for shelter. Day after day, she recounts how the Greeks suffer from thirst, heat, and homesickness, and how the opponents meet--army against army, man against man. There she tells them about another war--when the Greeks besieged Troy.
And everything had begun when Prince Paris of Troy fell in love with King Menelaus of Sparta's wife, the beautiful Helen, and escaped with her to his homeland. Helmets are cleaved, heads fly, blood flows. Now Helen stands atop the city walls to witness the horrors set in motion by her flight.
When her current and former loves face each other in battle, she knows that, whatever