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Black Ships Before Troy: The Story of 'The Iliad' Mass market paperback - 2005
by Sutcliff, Rosemary
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- Title Black Ships Before Troy: The Story of 'The Iliad'
- Author Sutcliff, Rosemary
- Binding Mass Market Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Condition Used - Acceptable
- Pages 176
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Laurel Leaf, New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date 2005
- Features Bibliography, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # G055349483XI5N01
- ISBN 9780553494839 / 055349483X
- Weight 0.2 lbs (0.09 kg)
- Dimensions 6.9 x 4.2 x 0.5 in (17.53 x 10.67 x 1.27 cm)
- Ages 12 to UP years
- Grade levels 7 - UP
- Reading level 1240
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Themes
- Chronological Period: Ancient (To 499 A.D.)
- Cultural Region: Greece
- Library of Congress subjects Mythology, Greek, Trojan War
- Dewey Decimal Code 883.01
From the jacket flap
"The Story of the Iliad
Homer's epic poem, The Illiad, is one of the greatest adventure stories of all time. In it, the abduction of the legendary beauty, Helen of Troy, leads to a conflict in which even the gods and goddesses take sides and intervene. It is in the Trojan War that the most valiant heroes of the ancient world are pitted against one another. Here Hectore, Ajax, Achilles, and Odysseus meet their most formidable challenges and in some casas their tragic ends.
Rosemary Sutcliff makes such extraordinary stories as those of those Trojan horse, of Aphrodite and the golden apple, and of the fearsome warrior women Amazons, accessible to contemporary young people.
Homer's epic poem, The Illiad, is one of the greatest adventure stories of all time. In it, the abduction of the legendary beauty, Helen of Troy, leads to a conflict in which even the gods and goddesses take sides and intervene. It is in the Trojan War that the most valiant heroes of the ancient world are pitted against one another. Here Hectore, Ajax, Achilles, and Odysseus meet their most formidable challenges and in some casas their tragic ends.
Rosemary Sutcliff makes such extraordinary stories as those of those Trojan horse, of Aphrodite and the golden apple, and of the fearsome warrior women Amazons, accessible to contemporary young people.
"From the Hardcover edition.