"A new translation of Homer's Iliad, with introduction, notes, synopsis, and glossary."--Provided by publisher.

A retelling of the events of the Trojan War and the wanderings of Odysseus based on Homer's Iliad and Odyssey.

Homer's classic story in which Helen, married to King Menelaus of Sparta, falls in love with Paris, the prince of Troy, which causes a ten year war between Greece and Troy.

A retelling of the Iliad that downplays the role of gods and delves into the mindsets of mortal heroes. As bombs fall over a Greek village during World War II, a teacher takes her students to a cave for shelter. There she tells them about another war, when the Greeks besieged Troy.

In the Port City of Aulis, Greece 1190 BCE, the Greek fleet of a thousand ships, assembled for the attack on Troy, lies becalmed. In the forest groves consecrated to the Goddess Artemis which clothe the hills above the port, a sacred stag and a young priestess lie dead. Superstitious soldiers believe that the outraged Goddess will not release the winds until the man who killed them is unmasked and sacrifices a child of his own in revenge. The soldiers...

In 1193 B.C., Prince Paris, the son of the King of Troy falls in love with Helen, the wife of the king of Sparta, and convinces her to follow him away from her husband, Menelaus, the result is an epic war. The Greeks sail to Troy and lay siege. Achilles, the greatest warrior in all the world, is called in to fight against Troy and give Greece the upper hand. Hector, the eldest son of Priam, King of Troy, and the greatest Trojan warrior embodies the...