![]() ![]() I thoroughly enjoyed this book, all the more so after having read The Odyssey and The Aneid. Helen is reclaimed and forgiven (but not, perhaps, by the reader) and the Greeks set sail to return to their homes. ![]() The city’s gates are opened from the inside and the returning Greek host sacks and burns and kills until Troy is but a terrible memory. Through deceit and subterfuge, the horse is drawn into the city and Troy’s doom is sure. Finally, when so many heroes on both sides have died, the Greeks feign a retreat and stow away their greatest remaining warriors into the belly of an enormous wooden horse. Through more than a decade the battle rages, calling to its war fields such heroes as Hector and Achilles and Odysseus and Agamemnon, and all the while the Greek gods take sides to lend their aid and their trouble. When the Greek Queen Helen runs away with the Trojan Prince Paris, her husband and his many allies attack the great city in an effort to retrieve her. In brief, this is the classic story of the Trojan War. As a consequence, I will keep my comments to the work at hand and not its far more famous predecessor. ![]() I feel that I must confess off the top that though I have read translations of Homer’s Odyssey and Virgil’s Aeneid, I have failed as yet to read a literal translation of The Iliad, which leaves me at a loss to compare this to the original. ![]()
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