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The epic tales of Achilles and the Trojan War and of Ulysses' long odyssey back to Ithaca bring into play the greatest heroes, gods, and demons of Greek mythology: Zeus, Athena, Hera, Aphrodite, Paris, Hector, Ajax, Cressida, the Cyclops, Circe, Scylla and Charybdis, the Sirens and more. And they are all brought vividly to life in this new - and often witty - retelling of The Iliad and The Odyssey.
117) Il-i-ad That Lad
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... Long ago in a far distant and different—though maybe not so—world, 1,250BCE, yet-to-be Greeks tried to retake that world's most beautiful woman, Helen of Troy, 'the face that launched a 1,000 ships' (actually 1,034). She'd been seduced/abducted by Paris, the Trojan prince. If she existed she may have been an excuse for colonial conquest, like the non-existent 'weapons of mass destruction' of Iraq 2003, as Troy was a key trading centre. Or...
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