Troy: Our Greatest Story Retold (Stephen Fry’s Great Mythology, #3)

by Stephen Fry

Why choose glory and fame in Troy when death awaits us whatever we do? Might as well end it here in this stinking lair as on the field of battle. One way we live for ever in posterity – in statues, songs and stories – the other we are forgotten. But so what? What has posterity ever done for us?’