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Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
Primera edición: marzo de 2021.
Language
Español
Description
Patroclo, un joven príncipe torpe, sigue a Aquiles a la guerra, sin saber que los años siguientes pondrán a prueba todo lo que han aprendido, todo lo que aprecian. Y que, antes de que esté listo, se verá obligado a entregar a su amigo en manos de Fate. Ambientada durante la Guerra de Troya.
Patroclus, an awkward young prince, follows Achilles into war, little knowing that the years that follow will test everything they have learned, everything...
122) The Trojan women
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
After the Greek victory in the Trojan War, all the Trojan warriors and princes are slain and the women and children are left to be divided among the conquerors. Beautiful Cassandra is betrothed against her will and despite her vanishing sanity. Andromache discovers that her son is to be executed to end her royal bloodline. Helen desperately wields the arrogant beauty that leveled a city as she pleads for her life. In the end, it is the enduring dignity...
123) A thousand ships
Author
Series
Age of bronze volume 1
Pub. Date
[2001-]
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.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Do the lessons passed down to us by history, lessons whose origins may lie hundreds, even thousands of years in the past, still have value for us today? Is Santayana's oft-repeated saying, "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it", merely a way to offer lip service to history as a teacher - or can we indeed learn from it? And if we can, what is it that we should be learning?
In this unflinching series of 36 lectures, a world-renowned...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Do the lessons passed down to us by history, lessons whose origins may lie hundreds, even thousands of years in the past, still have value for us today? Is Santayana's oft-repeated saying, "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it", merely a way to offer lip service to history as a teacher - or can we indeed learn from it? And if we can, what is it that we should be learning?
In this unflinching series of 36 lectures, a world-renowned...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Do the lessons passed down to us by history, lessons whose origins may lie hundreds, even thousands of years in the past, still have value for us today? Is Santayana's oft-repeated saying, "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it", merely a way to offer lip service to history as a teacher - or can we indeed learn from it? And if we can, what is it that we should be learning?
In this unflinching series of 36 lectures, a world-renowned...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"The Greek goddesses can be competitive-especially when it comes to being "the fairest." When Aphrodite, the goddess of love, wins the title, it kicks off a ten-year battle between the Greeks and the Trojans. Find out who comes out on top-and how the Trojan horse came to be-in this modern, graphic retelling of a classic Greek myth"--
Author
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
The Iliad can justly be called the world's greatest war epic. The terrible and long-drawn-out siege of Troy remains one of the classic campaigns, the heroism and treachery of its combatants unmatched in song and story. Driven by fierce passions and loyalties, men and gods battle to a devastating conclusion. The Odyssey chronicles the many trials and adventures Odysseus must pass through on his long journey home from the Trojan wars to his beloved...
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