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Vigorous new life is breathed into the myth's of Homer's Iliad in Lindsay Clarke's new dramatic retelling of the wars fought for the Bronze Age City of Troy. Paris and Helen, Agamemnon and Clytaemnestra, Achilles, Odysseus and Hector are skilfully rejuvenated in this startlingly contemporary drama of the passions. "The people who lived in those days were closer to gods than we are, and great deeds and marvels were commoner then, which is why the stories we have from them are nobler and richer than our own. So that those stories should not pass from the earth, I have decided to set down everything I know of the stories of the war at Troy - of the way it began, of the way it was fought, and of the way in which it was ended." With these words, Phemius the bard of Ithaca and friend to Odysseus, opens Lindsay Clarke's compelling new retelling of the myths and legends that grew up around the war that was fought for the Bronze Age city of Troy and have magnetized the imagination of the world ever since. Here are the tales of two powerful generations of men and women, living out their destinies in the timeless zone where myth and history intersect and where the conflicts of the human heart are mirrored by quarrels among immortal gods. Peleus and Thetis, Paris and Helen, Agamemnon and Clytaemnestra, Achilles, Odysseus and Hector - all are given vigorous new life in a version of their stories which remains faithful to the mythic form in which they first appeared yet engages the reader in a startlingly contemporary drama of the passions. THE WAR AT TROY speaks to a world still racked by violent conflict in ways which address important aspects of our own experience while at the same time providing imaginative access to the rich store of mythology which is our heritage from the ancient world.… (más)
Bookwormbiz: This book is like the Saving Private Ryan version of The Iliad. Its realistic and raw and bloody and gory, like reading a memoir about the Trojan war.
«En aquellos tiempos, el reino de los dioses estaba más cerca del mundo de los hombres, y los dioses solían dejarse ver entre nosotros, manifestándose a veces como tales, otras en forma humana y aun otras en forma de animal. También la gente que vivía por entonces estaba más cerca de los dioses que nosotros, y las grandes gestas y maravillas eran mucho más corrientes, por lo que sus historias son más nobles y ricas que las nuestras. Para que no desaparezcan de la faz de la tierra, he decidido poner por escrito todas las historias que he oído de la guerra en Troya: de cómo empezó, cómo se libró y cómo se terminó». Con estas palabras de Femio, bardo de Ítaca y amigo de Odiseo, se abre esta arrolladora novela de Lindsay Clarke sobre los mitos y las leyendas que surgieron de la guerra librada por la ciudad de Troya en la Edad de Bronce y que siempre han cautivado la imaginación del mundo. Es un relato de dos poderosas generaciones de hombres y mujeres y de sus destinos, en el que mito e historia se entrecruzan y los conflictos humanos corren paralelos a las disputas entre los dioses inmortales. Peleo y Tetis, Paris y Helena, Agamenón y Clitemnestra, Odiseo y Penélope, Aquiles y Héctor... cobran nueva vida en esta vibrante versión, fiel a la forma en que sucedieron los hechos, pero captando la atención del lector con un drama pasional de gran actualidad.
Arrolladora novela de Lindsay Clarke sobre los mitos y las leyendas que surgieron de la guerra librada por la ciudad de Troya en la Edad de Bronce y que siempre han cautivado la imaginación del mundo. Es un relato de dos poderosas generaciones de hombres y mujeres y de sus destinos, en el que mito e historia se entrecruzan y los conflictos humanos corren paralelos a las disputas entre los dioses inmortales. Peleo y Tetis, Paris y Helena, Agamenón y Clitemnestra, Odiseo y Penélope, Aquiles y Héctor... cobran nueva vida en esta vibrante versión, fiel a la forma en que sucedieron los hechos, pero captando la atención del lector con un drama pasional de gran actualidad.
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For Sean, Steve, Allen and Charlie.
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Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
In those days the realm of the gods lay closer to the world of men, and the gods were often seen to appear among us, sometimes manifesting as themselves, sometimes in human form, and sometimes in the form of animals.
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Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
For in the mortal realm only stories are stronger than death, and the god I serve requires this further work of me.
Vigorous new life is breathed into the myth's of Homer's Iliad in Lindsay Clarke's new dramatic retelling of the wars fought for the Bronze Age City of Troy. Paris and Helen, Agamemnon and Clytaemnestra, Achilles, Odysseus and Hector are skilfully rejuvenated in this startlingly contemporary drama of the passions. "The people who lived in those days were closer to gods than we are, and great deeds and marvels were commoner then, which is why the stories we have from them are nobler and richer than our own. So that those stories should not pass from the earth, I have decided to set down everything I know of the stories of the war at Troy - of the way it began, of the way it was fought, and of the way in which it was ended." With these words, Phemius the bard of Ithaca and friend to Odysseus, opens Lindsay Clarke's compelling new retelling of the myths and legends that grew up around the war that was fought for the Bronze Age city of Troy and have magnetized the imagination of the world ever since. Here are the tales of two powerful generations of men and women, living out their destinies in the timeless zone where myth and history intersect and where the conflicts of the human heart are mirrored by quarrels among immortal gods. Peleus and Thetis, Paris and Helen, Agamemnon and Clytaemnestra, Achilles, Odysseus and Hector - all are given vigorous new life in a version of their stories which remains faithful to the mythic form in which they first appeared yet engages the reader in a startlingly contemporary drama of the passions. THE WAR AT TROY speaks to a world still racked by violent conflict in ways which address important aspects of our own experience while at the same time providing imaginative access to the rich store of mythology which is our heritage from the ancient world.
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