#3 Stephen Fry's Great Mythology

Troy

Stephen Fry
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The story of Troy speaks to all of us—the kidnapping of Helen, a queen celebrated for her beauty, sees the Greeks launch a thousand ships against the city of Troy, to which they will lay siege for ten whole years. It is a terrible war with casualties on all sides as well as strained relations between allies, whose consequences become tragedies. In Troy you will find heroism and hatred, love and loss, revenge and regret, desire and despair. It is these human passions, written bloodily in the sands of a distant shore, that still speak to us today.
Genres: MythologyHistoryGreek MythologyNonfictionAudiobookClassicsHistoricalRetellingsWarAncient History
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