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From BBC Radio 4: The Last Days of Troy
Simon Armitage's dramatisation of Homer's Iliad . The Greeks are laying siege to Troy to win back their abducted queen, Helen. But as the conflict drags on, and despite battlefields scarlet with blood, opposing forces have reached a bitter stalemate. Desperate and exhausted, both Gods and mortals squabble amongst themselves for the spoils of war and the hand of victory.
The Last Days of Troy reveals a world locked in cycles of conflict and revenge, of east v ...more
Simon Armitage's dramatisation of Homer's Iliad . The Greeks are laying siege to Troy to win back their abducted queen, Helen. But as the conflict drags on, and despite battlefields scarlet with blood, opposing forces have reached a bitter stalemate. Desperate and exhausted, both Gods and mortals squabble amongst themselves for the spoils of war and the hand of victory.
The Last Days of Troy reveals a world locked in cycles of conflict and revenge, of east v ...more
Pillage and plunder, jealousy, ego, battlefield formations, Achilles, Hector and more blood and guts than I would have thought possible in so old of a book. Highbrow Conan!
Nov 12, 2011
Erika
rated it
it was amazing
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review of another edition
Shelves:
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best-of-the-best
Oct 20, 2012
Lisa
marked it as to-read
