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In the English verse translation by Alexander Pope, illustrated with th classical designs of John Flaxman. Collector's edition bound in genuine leather.

The story of the Trojan War beginning with three goddesses quarreling over a golden apple.

In his clear preface, Gilbert Murray says with truth that The Trojan Women, valued by the usage of the stage, is not a perfect play. It is only the crying of one of the great wrongs of the world wrought into music. Yet it is one of the greater dramas of the elder world. In one situation, with little movement, with few figures, it flashes out a great dramatic lesson, the infinite pathos of a successful wrong. It has in it the very soul of the tragic....

Retells the story of the Trojan War, from the quarrel for the golden apple, and the flight of Helen with Paris, to the destruction of Troy.

"This is the women’s war, just as much as it is the men’s. They have waited long enough for their turn... This was never the story of one woman, or two. It was the story of them all... In the middle of the night, a woman wakes to find her beloved city engulfed in flames. Ten seemingly endless years of conflict between the Greeks and the Trojans are over. Troy has fallen. From the Trojan women whose fates now lie in the hands of the Greeks, to...

A retelling of how the Greeks used a wooden horse to win the ten-year-long Trojan War.

A retelling of how the Greeks used a wooden horse to win the ten-year-long Trojan War.

A retelling of the story of the Trojan War illustrated with collages featuring newspaper clippings of modern events from World War I through the Persian Gulf war.

Takes a look at the history and discusses the myths and realities behind the legen of Troy.

Helen's dreams come true when she arrives with Paris in the powerful city of Troy. But her triumphant entry is marred by Kassandra's wild predictions of Troy's doom. No one believes such ravings, but nevertheless, doom is on its way.