Tales of Troy: Ulysses, the Sacker of Cities
by Andrew Lang
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About This Book
The Iliad is typically described as one of the greatest war stories of all time, but to call it a war story does not begin to describe the emotional sweep of its action and characters: Achilles, Helen, Hector, and other heroes of Greek myth and history in the 10th and final year of the Greek siege of Troy. The Odyssey is, quite simply, the story of Odysseus, who wants to go home. But Poseidon, god of oceans, doesn't want him to make it back across the wine-dark sea to his wife, Penelope, son, Telemachus, and their high-roofed home at Ithaca. The story is told in easy-going, beautiful poetry; t...
Chapters (15)
- TALES OF TROY: ULYSSES THE SACKER OF CITIES by Andrew Lang
- THE BOYHOOD AND PARENTS OF ULYSSES
- HOW PEOPLE LIVED IN THE TIME OF ULYSSES
- THE WOOING OF HELEN OF THE FAIR HANDS
- THE STEALING OF HELEN
- TROJAN VICTORIES
- BATTLE AT THE SHIPS
- THE SLAYING AND AVENGING OF PATROCLUS
- THE CRUELTY OF ACHILLES, AND THE RANSOMING OF HECTOR
- HOW ULYSSES STOLE THE LUCK OF TROY
- THE BATTLES WITH THE AMAZONS AND MEMNON—THE DEATH OF ACHILLES
- ULYSSES SAILS TO SEEK THE SON OF ACHILLES.—THE VALOUR OF EURYPYLUS
- THE SLAYING OF PARIS
- HOW ULYSSES INVENTED THE DEVICE OF THE HORSE OF TREE
- THE END OF TROY AND THE SAVING OF HELEN
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