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1) The Iliad
Author
Pub. Date
c1997
Language
English
Description
Retells the events of the war between Greece and the city of Troy, focusing on Achilles' quarrel with Agamemnon
2) The Iliad
Author
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
Retells the events of the war between Greece and the city of Troy, focusing on Achilles' quarrel with Agamemnon.
Author
Language
English
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Description
"In The Rage of Achilles, Terence Hawkins recounts the Iliad as a novel and imagines a Trojan War that really happened. Though he adopts Homer's characters, those fabled warriors are no more noble than the scared, tired grunts they command, exhausted and bitter after ten years of brutal Bronze Age warfare. And however savage the fighting, over all hangs the terrible truth that the objective of combat is not glory, but the enslavement of the defeated....
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