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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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"At once a scholar's homage to The Iliad and startlingly original work of art by an incredibly talented new novelist....A book I could not put down."
—Ann Patchett
"Mary Renault lives again!" declares Emma Donoghue, author of Room, referring to The Song of Achilles, Madeline Miller's thrilling, profoundly moving, and utterly unique retelling of the legend of Achilles and the Trojan War.
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...2) The Iliad
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English
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When Emily Wilson's translation of The Odyssey appeared in 2017--revealing the ancient poem in a contemporary idiom that was "fresh, unpretentious and lean" (Madeline Miller, Washington Post)--critics lauded it as "a revelation" (Susan Chira, New York Times) and "a cultural landmark" (Charlotte Higgins, Guardian) that would forever change how Homer is read in English. Now Wilson has returned with an equally revelatory translation of Homer's other...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Achilles was a legendary warrior of ancient Greece. When Paris, the Trojan prince, kidnapped the beautiful Helen, the Greek armies joined together under the great king Agamemnon to bring her back. The Achaean Greeks would fight the Trojans for 10 years. Agamemnon's pride, however, would threaten to destroy the Achaeans' chances of victory. When he took Achilles' battle prize, Achilles refused to fight. Of all the Achaeans, though, only Achilles could...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"From the Booker Prize-winning author of the Regeneration trilogy comes a monumental new masterpiece, set in the midst of literature's most famous war. Pat Barker turns her attention to the timeless legend of The Iliad, as experienced by the captured women living in the Greek camp in the final weeks of the Trojan War. The ancient city of Troy has withstood a decade under siege of the powerful Greek army, who continue to wage bloody war over a stolen...
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Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Language
English
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Married at a tender age to the Spartan king Menelaus, the beautiful Helen bears him a daughter and anticipates a passionless marriage before falling in love with the Trojan prince Paris, with whom she flees to Troy, with devastating consequences.
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Series
Goddess summoning series volume 6
Language
English
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In a bid to end the Trojan War, three powerful goddesses try to tame the incomparable warrrior Achilles with the love of a modern woman in this Goddess Summoning novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author P. C. Cast...
Goddesses Hera, Athena, and Venus have had it up to here with the Trojan War. So much devastation—all because of some silly male egos. The worst of the bunch is Achilles, the Greek champion whose powers...
Goddesses Hera, Athena, and Venus have had it up to here with the Trojan War. So much devastation—all because of some silly male egos. The worst of the bunch is Achilles, the Greek champion whose powers...
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Series
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English
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What happens when the gods disagree? They send the mightiest of heroes to fight a war. But which hero will you be, and who will you side with: Greece s King Menelaus or Paris, a prince from the city of Troy? If the gods favor you, you just may survive the fighting. Full-page illustrations, interactive stories, and multiple endings transport you back to ancient Greece and into thick of battle as the Trojan War rages on.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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"Trojan princess Cassandra is cursed by Apollo with the gift of prophecy, and must try to find her place in a world that she knows to be perilous; years later, will her friendship with a young Amazon princess named Rin help her to avert a disastrous end to their war?"--
Author
Series
Myth-o-mania volume 9
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this updated version of Greek mythology, Hades, King of the Underworld, reveals the truth about Helen of Troy and the Trojan War.
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Publisher
Picture Window Books
Pub. Date
2008, c2007
Edition
1st American ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
64 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Acheron, the best liar in Troy, is suspicious when a stranger arrives in the city and announces that the Greeks have left without a fight, but he has trouble making anyone listen to his warning.
13) Elektra
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
"Elektra is a spellbinding reimagining of the story of one of Greek mythology's most infamous heroines, from Jennifer Saint, the author of the beloved international bestseller, Ariadne. Three women, tangled in an ancient curse. When Clytemnestra marries Agamemnon, she ignores the insidious whispers about his family line, the House of Atreus. But when, on the eve of the Trojan War, Agamemnon betrays Clytemnestra in the most unimaginable way, she must...
14) Troy
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
2-disc widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (approximately 163 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In 1193 B.C., Prince Paris, the son of the King of Troy falls in love with Helen, the wife of the king of Sparta, and convinces her to follow him away from her husband, Menelaus. The result is an epic war in which the Greeks sail to Troy and lay siege. Achilles, the greatest warrior in all the world, is called in to fight against Troy and give Greece the upper hand. Hector, the eldest son of Priam, King of Troy, and the greatest Trojan warrior, embodies...
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English
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Held captive by the victorious Greeks, one time Trojan queen Briseis, formerly Achilles' slave, forges alliances when she can with Priam's aged wife, the defiant Hecuba, and the disgraced soothsayer Calchas, all the while shrewdly seeking her path to revenge.
Publisher
Delta Entertainment Corp
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (86 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Join the search for the real story of Troy, and take an unforgettable journey that will not only reveal the magic of Troy, but also bring life to an era long past, but never forgotten.
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