Stephen Fry (1957-)
Troy

our greatest story told


BoklivArtikelnr: 9781405944465

Pocketbok om Troja, där myt och verklighet vävs samman. En berättelse om skönhet, krig och mänskliga passioner. Utgiven av Penguin.

  • Berättar om Trojanska kriget och dess mytologi.

  • Utforskar mänskliga passioner genom antika karaktärer.

  • Utgiven som pocket av Penguin.

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Bokförlag: Penguin
Omfång: 496 | Språk: Engelska

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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 that great city, to which they will lay siege for ten whole and very bloody years. It is Zeus, the king of the gods, who triggers war when he asks the Trojan prince Paris to judge the fairest goddess of them all. Aphrodite bribes Paris with the heart of Helen, wife of King Menelaus of the Greeks, and naturally, nature takes its course. It is a terrible, brutal war with casualties on all sides. The Greeks cannot defeat the Trojans - since Achilles, the Greek's boldest warrior, is consumed with jealousy over an ally's choice of lover, the Trojan slave Briseis, and will not fight . . . The stage is set for the oldest and greatest story ever told, where monstrous passions meet the highest ideals and the lowest cunning. In Troy you will find heroism and hatred, love and loss, revenge and regret, desire and despair. It is these human passions, written bloodily in the sands of a distant shore, that still speak to us today. Troy is a myth in which we seek the truth about ourselves, which Stephen Fry brings breathtakingly to life for our modern age.

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