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"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...
3) The Iliad
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English
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"The culmination of a decade of intense engagement with antiquity's most surpassingly beautiful and emotionally complex poetry, Wilson's Iliad now gives us a complete Homer for our generation"--
"The greatest literary landmark of antiquity masterfully rendered by the most celebrated translator of our time. When Emily Wilson’s translation of The Odyssey appeared in 2017―revealing the ancient poem in a contemporary idiom that was “fresh, unpretentious...
4) Elektra
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2022.
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English
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"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...
8) The odyssey
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Sterling
Pub. Date
c2011
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IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 3
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English
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Retells the classic Greek epic about the wanderings of Odysseus after the fall of Troy and his efforts to return home to Ithaca and his family.
10) The tale of Troy
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Puffin
Pub. Date
1994
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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Simon Spotlight
Pub. Date
2014.
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IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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"During the Trojan War, the Trojans receive the gift of a huge wooden horse from the Greeks. Thinking the gift means that they have won the war, the Trojans celebrate. But what they don't realize is that Greek soldiers are hidden inside the huge horse waiting to attack!"--From publisher description.
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Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2021]
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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.
14) The odyssey
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IL: UG - BL: 10.3 - AR Pts: 24
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English
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The epic poem recounting the experiences of Odysseus during his return from the Trojan War.
A new translation of the epic poem, and the first by a woman, brings alive Homer's tale of shipwrecks, monsters, and magic, and provides an introductory overview of the poem's major themes, controversial origin, and the scope of its influence.
A New York Times Notable Book of 2018 "Wilson’s language is fresh, unpretentious and lean…It is rare to find...
15) The Hittite
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Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
c2010
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English
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Returning home from a long, brutal campaign against the Armenian army, the Hittite soldier Lukka finds the once magnificent Hatti empire in chaos, its capital city Hattusa engulfed in fire and terrorized by marauding gangs. His wife and young sons have been taken by slave traders.
16) The Trojan horse
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Publisher
Harry N. Abrams
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
18) A thousand ships
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Series
Age of bronze volume 1
Publisher
Image
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
"Drawn from the myths and legends of centuries, A thousand ships presents a new for the twenty-first century the complete prelude to the Trojan war- each sensual touch, every savage blow, the smiles and tear, the lust and betrayal, the entire tapestry of drama and action."-cover.
20) Sacrifice
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Series
Age of Bronze volume 2
Publisher
Image Comics
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
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