It is a myth in which we seek the truth about ourselves and which Stephen Fry brings breathtakingly to life. It is these human passions, written bloodily in the sands of a distant shore, that still speak to us today. In Troy you will find heroism and hatred, love and loss, revenge and regret, desire and despair. The consequences lead to terrible tragedies. The Greek’s most fearsome warrior, Achilles, argues with King Agamemnon, his commander, over another woman, the Trojan slave Briseis.
It is a terrible, brutal war with casualties on all sides as well as strained relations between allies. Aphrodite bribes Paris with the heart of Helen, wife of King Menelaus of the Greeks, and naturally, nature takes its course. Step into Stephen Fry's bewitching retelling of the legend of Troy - a tale of love and war, passion and power - following his sensational bestsellers MYTHOS.
It is Zeus, the king of the gods, who triggers the war when he asks the Trojan prince Paris to judge the fairest goddess of them all. The story of Troy speaks to all of us – the kidnapping of Helen, a queen celebrated for her beauty, sees the Greeks launch a thousand ships against the city of Troy, to which they will lay siege for 10 whole and very bloody years. Following the best-selling retellings of the Greek myths in Mythos and Heroes, Stephen Fry’s bewitching third volume, Troy – concerning love and war, passion and power – is now ready for ordering.
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