Troy: The Greatest Legend Retold
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After stories of gods ("Myth") and men ("Heroes"), Stephen Fry continued his grand ancient cycle with the greatest legend, now more than three thousand years old. The story of Troy and its heroes is fresh and relevant today, even though centuries separate us from it. Ten-year war, which captured at the turn of the XIII and XII centuries BC. all of the eastern Mediterranean and the surrounding area, became thanks to Homer and his "Iliad" inexhaustible source of inspiration for all of Western civilization. The story of Troy still defines our ideas about heroism, love, betrayal, revenge, guile, disappointment, repentance, despair and generosity. In his third volume of great ancient tales, Stephen Fry offers us a true novel in its most modern sense - as dynamic, gripping, and touching to the heart. Helen, Paris, Achilles, Achilles, Patroclus, Menelaus, Agamemnon, Priam, Hecuba - these and many other names have already become hardly nouns, but Fry has given this immortal symphony of voices and destinies....
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