troy (extinct city)

Twins Jess and Josh travel back in time to the ancient city of Troy, where they meet the great warrior Achilles and search of their uncle.

"This was never the story of one woman, or two. It was the story of all of them. In the middle of the night, Creusa wakes to find her beloved Troy engulfed in flames. Ten seemingly endless years of brutal conflict between the Greeks and the Trojans are over, and the Greeks are victorious. Over the next few hours, the only life she has ever known will turn to ash. The devastating consequences of the fall of Troy stretch from Mount Olympus to Mount Ida, from the citadel of Troy to the distant Greek islands, and across oceans and sky in between. These are the stories of the women embroiled in that legendary war and its terrible aftermath, as well as the feud and the fatal decisions that started it all"--Provided by publisher.

"A retelling of the Greek myth of the Trojan war"--Provided by publisher.

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 to unravel. Old feuds resurface and new suspicions and rivalries begin to fester. Largely unnoticed by her captors, the one time Trojan queen Briseis, formerly Achilles's slave, now belonging to his companion Alcimus, quietly takes in these developments. She forges alliances when she can, with Priam's aged wife the defiant Hecuba and with the disgraced soothsayer Calchas, all the while shrewdly seeking her path to revenge.

Bombs fall over a Greek village during World War II, and a teacher takes her students to a cave for shelter. There she tells them about another war, when the Greeks besieged Troy. Day after day, she recounts how the Greeks suffer from thirst, heat, and homesickness, and how the opponents meet; army against army, man against man. Helmets are cleaved, heads fly, blood flows. And everything had begun when Prince Paris of Troy fell in love with king of Sparta Menelaus's wife, the beautiful Helen, and escaped with her to his homeland. Now Helen stands atop the city walls to witness the horrors set in motion by her flight. When her current and former loves face each other in battle, she knows that, whatever happens, she will be losing.

The first in a graphic novel series detailing the events of the mythological Trojan War, this volume tells of Paris' discovery that he is actually Alexander, Prince of Troy, his abduction of Helen of Sparta, and the launching of the thousand ships from Sparta that marked the beginning of the war.

A prose adaptation of the epic Greek poem which tells of the experiences of Odysseus while on his return from the Trojan War.

Presents a comic book adaptation of Homer's "The Iliad" which retells the events of the war between Greece and the city of Troy, that focuses on Achilles' quarrel with Agamemnon.

Presents a narrative account of the war between the Greeks and the Trojans, based on Homer's "The Iliad;" and includes a list of characters as well as background information.

Explores the historical Greco-Roman sites in and around the Aegean coast including Troy, ancient Paphos, and the thermal spa of Hierapolis.