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1	Troy: Shield of Thunder more books like this by David Gemmell add to wishlist The war of Troy is looming, and all the kings of the Great Green are gathering, friends and enemies, each with their own dark plans of conquest and plunder. Into this maelstrom of treachery and deceit come three travellers; Piria, a runaway priestess nursing a terrible secret, Kalliades, a warrior with a legendary sword, and Banokles who will ... see all copies from $3.42! new only from $8.97! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Troilus & Criseyde more books like this by Geoffrey Chaucer add to wishlist Despite his resolve to avoid romantic entanglements, the poor Trojan prince Troilus falls in love with the beautiful Criseyde. After a brief affair, the lovers are separated when Criseyde is sent to the Greek camp and betrays Troilus by falling in love with the Greek Diomede. Heartbroken, Troilus fights to his death at the hand of Achilles. ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.00! \| first editions \| SVS
3	Troilus & Cressida more books like this by William Shakespeare add to wishlist This edition is the first to offer a detailed account of the theatrical treatment of Troilus and Cressida on the British and North American stages from its first revivals at the beginning of the twentieth century to the present. As social turmoil increased, audiences grew more in tune with the play's cynical undercutting of the Homeric tale of ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
4	Helen of Troy more books like this by Margaret George add to wishlist From the bestselling author of "Autobiography of Henry VIII, Memoirs of Cleopatra," and "Mary, Called Magdalene," among others, comes a lush, seductive novel of the legendary beauty whose face "launched a thousand ships," the mythic woman who was Helen of Troy. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.99! \| first editions \| SVS
5	Firebrand more books like this by Marion Zimmer Bradley add to wishlist Bradley turns her talent for lyrical interpretation of history to the Trojan War as witnessed by the prophetess Kassandra. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.44! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
6	Troy more books like this by Adele Geras add to wishlist The story of the Trojan war as told from the perspectives of a stable boy, Aphrodite the goddess of love, and her sisters Marpessa and Xanthe. Named one of the Best Children's Books 2001 by Publishers Weekly. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
7	The War at Troy more books like this by Lindsay Clarke add to wishlist Vigorous new life is breathed into the myth's of Homer's Iliad in Lindsay Clarke's new dramatic retelling of the wars fought for the Bronze Age City of Troy. Paris and Helen, Agamemnon and Clytaemnestra, Achilles, Odysseus and Hector are skilfully rejuvenated in this startlingly contemporary drama of the passions. "The people who lived in those ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.67! \| first editions
8	Troilus and Cressida more books like this by Geoffrey Chaucer, George Philip Krapp (Translator) add to wishlist Often called the first great English novel, "Troilus and Cressida," a tragic love story set during the siege of Troy, is Chaucer's masterpiece. Troilus, a valiant warrior, is scornful of love until he catches a glimpse of Cressida. With the help of his friend and her uncle Pandarus, Troilus wins Cressida over. But their happiness is destroyed when ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.23! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
9	In Search of the Trojan War more books like this by Michael Wood add to wishlist For thousands of years the tale of Troy has captivated the western imagination. Hector and Achilles, Odysseus and the beautiful Helen are among the most enduring figures in art and literature. But did Troy really exist, and did the Trojan war really take place? In this study Michael Wood takes the reader back to the Greek Age of Heroes. In the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
10	The Cure at Troy: A Version of Sophocles' Philoctetes more books like this by Seamus Heaney add to wishlist Heaney modeled this dramatic work on Sophocles's PHILOCTETES, drawing a relationship between the plight of modern Ireland and the ancient tragedy about a hero whose wound can only be cured at Troy. see all copies from $2.34! new only from $4.97! \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	Finding the Walls of Troy: Frank Calvert and Heinrich Schliemann at Hisarlik more books like this by Susan Heuck Allen add to wishlist The relentlessly self-promoting amateur archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann took full credit for discovering Homer's Troy over one hundred years ago, and since then generations have thrilled to the tale of his ambitions and achievements. But Schliemann gained this status as an archaeological hero partly by deliberately eclipsing the man who had ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.79! \| first editions
12 view cover	Lord of the Silver Bow more books like this by David Gemmell add to wishlist Although many of its characters are drawn from the familiar Greek mythology, the plot of this historical fantasy, the first of a trilogy, goes in an entirely different and fascinating direction. King Agamemmnon of Mykene secretly funds pirates and uses their loot to fund his army. This scheme sets him squarely against Prince Aeneas of Dardania, ... see all copies from $4.40! new only from $8.65! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	Cassandra : a novel and four essays more books like this by Christa Wolf add to wishlist Cassandra, daughter of the King of Troy, is endowed with the gift of prophecy but fated never to be believed. After the fall of Troy, in a stream of memories, associations, reflections she comes to an understanding of her own life and of war. This is a recreation of a classical myth. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.92! \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	The Trojan Women and Other Plays more books like this by Euripides, James Morwood (Translator), Edith Hall (Introduction by) add to wishlist Hecuba The Trojan Women Andromache In the three great war plays contained in this volume Euripides subjects the sufferings of Troy's survivors to a harrowing examination. The horrific brutality which both women and children undergo evokes a response of unparalleled intensity in the playwright whom Aristotle called the most tragic of the poets. ... see all copies from $3.95! new only from $5.90! \| SVS
15 view cover	Hades' Daughter: Book One of the Troy Game more books like this by Sara Douglass add to wishlist Ancient Greece is a place where mortals are the play things of the gods - but at the core of their city-state is a Labyrinth, where mortals can shape the heavens to their own design. When Theseus comes away from the Labyrinth with the prize and his beloved, the Mistress of the Labyrinth, his future seems assured. But she bears him only a daughter ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	Schliemann of Troy: Treasure and Deceit more books like this by David A Traill add to wishlist By uncovering what he claimed to be Homer's Troy and Mycenate, Heinrich Schliemann (1822-90) became one of the dominant personalities of his age. Yet this biography shows him to have lived an entire life of fraud. Rumours and claims that he fabricated evidence, or bought, buried and "found" artefacts, are fully evaluated, as the author reassesses ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $14.95! \| first editions
17 view cover	Shield of Thunder more books like this by David Gemmell add to wishlist With this first masterly volume in an epic reimagining of the Trojan War, Gemmell has written an ageless drama of brave deeds and fierce battles, of honor and treachery, of love won and lost. see all copies from $3.48! new only from $3.48!
18 view cover	Odysseus: A Life more books like this by Charles Rowan Beye add to wishlist In this entertaining "biography," Beye fills out the story of this extraordinary figure, at the same time portraying Odysseus' evolution through the course of a strange and adventurous life, at times remote and at times immediate in the contemporary perspective. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
19	The walls of windy Troy : a biography of Heinrich Schliemann more books like this by Marjorie Braymer add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! signed copies \| first editions
20 view cover	Gods' Concubine: Book Two of the Troy Game more books like this by Sara Douglass add to wishlist From ancient Greece, led by Brutus, holder of the bands of gold that wield the magic of the Gods, the remnants of Troy are drawn to Albion. Landing on the shores of the land that became Britain, they began to construct a new labyrinth, a place of magic that will bring unimaginable power to those who can control it. But the temptress who lured ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.99! \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	Troy and Its Remains: A Narrative of Researches and Discoveries Made on the Site of Ilium and in the Trojan Plain more books like this by Heinrich Schliemann add to wishlist Famed archaeologist's fascinating account of his search for Homeric Troy; discovery, stunning artifacts, riches, more. see all copies from $8.90! new only from $12.99!
22 view cover	Troilus and Cressida Pel more books like this by William Shakespeare, Jonathan Crewe (Editor), Dr. Stephen Orgel (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.50! \| SVS
23 view cover	Women of Troy more books like this by Euripides add to wishlist An industrial port of a war-torn city. Women survivors wait to be shipped abroad. Officials come and go. A grandmother, once Queen, watches as her remaining family are taken from her one by one. The city burns around them. Euripides' great anti-war tragedy is published in Don Taylor's translation to coincide with the National Theatre's production ... see all copies from $5.05! new only from $8.55! \| SVS
24 view cover	The Fall of Troy more books like this by Peter Ackroyd add to wishlist 'I cannot wait to bring you to the plain of Troy. To show you the place where Hector and Achilles fought. To show you the palace of Priam. And the walls where the Trojan women watched their warriors in battle with the invader. It will stir your blood, Sophia.' Sophia Chrysanthis is only 16 when the German archaeologist Herr Obermann comes wooing: ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.97! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
25 view cover	The Trojan Women and Hippolytus more books like this by Euripides add to wishlist Played out against the ruined walls of Troy, "The Trojan Women" serves as one of the most powerful indictments of war ever written, recounting the murder of the innocent, the desecration of shrines, and the enslavement of Trojan women. "Hippolytus" depicts the struggles to master human passion, struggles symbolized by gods who behave like ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99!

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