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Although one of his lesser known plays, Shakespeare's considerable abilities as a playwright are readily apparent in "Troilus and Cressida." This historical and tragic 'problem play', thought to be inspired by Chaucer, Homer, and some of Shakespeare's history-recording contemporaries, is initially a tale of a man and woman in love during the Trojan War. When Cressida is given to the Greeks in exchange for a prisoner of war, Troilus is determined to...
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Knopf
Pub. Date
1967
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English
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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....
3) The Hittite
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Forge
Pub. Date
[2010]
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English
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Returning home from a long, brutal campaign against the Armenian army, the Hittite soldier Lukka finds the once magnificent Hatti empire in chaos, its capital city Hattusa engulfed in fire and terrorized by marauding gangs. His wife and young sons have been taken by slave traders.
4) Troy
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Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
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English
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When Paris, the son of the king of Troy, falls in love with Helen, the wife of the king of Sparta, the result is an epic war. Achilles, the greatest warrior in all the world, is called in to fight against Troy and give Greece the upper hand.
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Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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"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...
9) Troy
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
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Did a place called Troy really exist? Was Homer's epic more than the Trojan tale of war and deception? Join us in the search for a lost world and unravel the mysteries that whirl around the ancient city. National geographic transports you back in time.
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Troy volume 2
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Doubleday
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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A feminist retelling of The Iliad. Troy has fallen and the victorious Greeks are eager to return home with the spoils of an endless war--including the women of Troy themselves. They await a fair wind for the Aegean; it does not come, because the gods are offended. The body of King Priam lies unburied and desecrated, and so the victors remain in suspension, camped in the shadows of the city they destroyed as the coalition that held them together begins...
12) Helen of Troy
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Viking
Pub. Date
[2006]
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English
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Married at a tender age to the Spartan king Menelaus, the beautiful Helen bears him a daughter and anticipates a passionless marriage before falling in love with the Trojan prince Paris, with whom she flees to Troy with devastating consequences.
14) Trojan Gold
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Vicky Bliss mysteries volume 4
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English
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A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words. But the photograph art historian Vicky Bliss has just received gives rise to a thousand questions instead. A quick glance at the bloodstained envelope is all the proof she needs that something is horribly wrong. The picture itself is familiar: a woman adorned in the gold of Troy. Yet this isn't the famous photograph of Frau Schliemann-no, this picture is contemporary. The gold, as Vicky and her fellow academics...
15) Troy
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Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
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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...
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Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2009], c2002
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IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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Anaxandra, daughter of the king of a small Greek island, becomes caught up in the events of the siege of Troy when, after spending most of her life as a hostage, she is taken into the palace of King Menalaus and ends up traveling to Troy as protector of Helen's infant son.
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"Archaeologist Riley Smith has been obsessed with Helen of Troy since she was a small girl, trailing her professor father all over the world in search of the tomb of the world's most beautiful woman. Professor Smith set out to prove that, instead of a myth, Helen had been a living, breathing queen who inspired Homer to write The Iliad. Forensic sculptor Eve Duncan has the unusual skills needed to recreate the face that launched a thousand ships--revealing...