18 books like The Song of Troy

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Omero, Iliade Alessandro Baricco · 2004 · ★ 3.7 · 169p · ≈ 5h · Moderate Guiado por la idea de adaptar el texto para una lectura pública, Alessandro Baricco relee y reescribe la Ilíada de Homero, como si tuviéramos que devolver a Homero allí mismo, a la Ilíada, para contemplar uno de los más majestuosos paisajes de nuestro destino. Shares: Trojan War. fast, Trojan War, Greece, Greek Mythology

Tales of Troy and Greece Andrew Lang · 1907 · 227p · ≈ 7h · Challenging A magnificent collection of the most stirring myths from the ancient world, Andrew Lang's Tales of Troy and Greece presents five major narrative cycles that have shaped the literary imagination for centuries. Illustrated by H.J. Ford, this classic work brings together the greatest heroes and adventures of Greek legend in vivid, accessible prose. The collection opens with "Ulysses the Sacker of… Shares: Trojan War. fast, Trojan War, Greek Mythology, Mythology

The Trojan War Olivia E. Coolidge · 1952 · ★ 3.6 · 250p · ≈ 8h · Moderate Retells legends of the heroes of the Trojan War, which began with Paris of Troy's abduction of Helen, wife of Menelaus, lord of Greece. Shares: Trojan War, Greece, Greek Mythology

Mythe et société en Grèce ancienne Jean-Pierre Vernant · 1974 · 252p · ≈ 8h · Moderate This book is a stimulating and largely persuasive collection of essays on the interrelations between social institutions and mythical thinking in ancient Greek society. What is fundamental to the author's approach is a determination to see the meaning of Greek myth and of Greek social institutions in patterns of association and opposition, in the articulations of a system of ideas. It is in this… Shares: Greece, Greek Mythology, Mythology

The story of the Golden Fleece Padraic Colum · 1957 · 174p · ≈ 5h · Moderate "Still unequaled as an introduction to the classic myths."—Publishers WeeklyGeared toward young readers, the classic retellings of stories from ancient myth presented in this volume center on the Argonauts' quest for the golden fleece. Generations have thrilled to compelling renditions of the adventures of heroic Jason and the sorceress Medea, mighty Heracles, the minstrel Orpheus, and other… Shares: Greece, Greek Mythology, Mythology

Heroes of Greece and Troy Roger Lancelyn Green · 1960 · 337p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Un acercamiento perfecto para el público más joven a la cultura clásica y sus mitos, en una magistral versión de la última gran leyenda de la Edad Heroica, el asedio de Troya: con su caída comienza la Historia. Roger Lancelyn Green se acerca una vez más a la mitología, en esta ocasión para contar la extraordinaria historia de Helena, cuyo rostro lanzó mil naves al mar, y la del juicio de Paris;… Shares: Trojan War, Greek Mythology, Mythology

Troilus and Cressida William Shakespeare · 1609 · ★ 3.4 · 544p · ≈ 18h · Demanding With new editors who have incorporated the most up-to-date scholarship, this revised Pelican Shakespeare series will be the premiere choice for students, professors, and general readers well into the twenty-first century.Each volume features: Authoritative, reliable texts High quality introductions and notes New, more readable trade trim size An essay on the theatrical world of Shakespeare and… Shares: Trojan War. fast, Trojan War, History

Trojan War Blake A. Hoena · 2017 · 112p · ≈ 3h · Moderate What happens when the gods disagree? They send the mightiest of heroes to fight a war. But which hero will you be, and who will you side with: Greece’s King Menelaus or Paris, a prince from the city of Troy? If the gods favor you, you just may survive the fighting. Shares: Trojan War, Greek Mythology, Mythology

A book of myths Jeanie Lang · 1915 · 286p · ≈ 9h · Challenging Just as a little child holds out its hands to catch the sunbeams, to feel and to grasp what, so its eyes tell it, is actually there, so, down through the ages, men have stretched out their hands in eager endeavour to know their God. And because only through the human was the divine knowable, the old peoples of the earth made gods of their heroes and not unfrequently endowed these gods with as… Shares: Greek Mythology, Mythology

The Myths of Plato Πλάτων · 1905 · 544p · ≈ 18h · Challenging tr., with introductory and other observations Shares: Greek Mythology, Mythology

D'Aulaires' Book of Greek Myths Ingri Parin D'Aulaire · 1962 · ★ 4.4 · 192p · ≈ 6h · Moderate A re-telling of the myths of ancient Greece for children. Shares: Greek Mythology, Mythology

Mythology Jane Ellen Harrison · 1924 · ★ 4.0 · 155p · ≈ 5h · Challenging Jane Harrison examines the festivals of ancient Greek religion to identify the primitive "substratum" of ritual and its persistence in the realm of classical religious observance and literature. In Harrison's preface to this remarkable book, she writes that J. G. Frazer's work had become part and parcel of her "mental furniture" and that of others studying primitive religion. Today, those who… Shares: Greek Mythology, Mythology

Margaret and her friends Caroline Wells Healey Dall · 1895 · 162p · ≈ 5h · Challenging The only firsthand account of one of Fuller's famous "Conversations," the first of which to men were invited. Guests included Bronson Alcott, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Sophia and George Ripley, Sophia and Elizabeth Peabody, Caroline Sturgis and Jones Very. Dall, who went on the become a major figure in the woman's rights movement in Massachusetts, includes direct quotes attributed to Fuller and… Shares: Greek Mythology, Mythology

Cyclops Tells All Nancy Loewen · 2014 · 32p · ≈ 1h · Moderate OF COURSE you think my actions were horrific and heartless, that dining on Odysseus' men was unforgivable. You don't know the other side of the myth. Well, let me tell you... Shares: Greek Mythology, Mythology

The Iliad and the Odyssey of Homer Alfred John Church · 1906 · 277p · ≈ 9h · Challenging Three thousand years ago the world was still young. The western continent was a huge wilderness, and the greater part of Europe was inhabited by savage and wandering tribes. Only a few nations at the eastern end of the Mediterranean and in the neighbouring parts of Asia had learned to dwell in cities, to use a written language, to make laws for themselves, and to live in a more orderly fashion.… Shares: Greek Mythology, Mythology

The Greek mythology Alexander Duthie · 1932 · 168p · ≈ 5h · Challenging Shares: Greek Mythology, Mythology

Gates of Fire Steven Pressfield · 1998 · ★ 4.5 · 387p · ≈ 12h · Moderate Godine 480.pr.Kr. kod Termopila (Vruća vrata) na sjeveru Grčke odigrala se najveličanstvenija bitka za slobodu tijekom čitave povijesti čovječanstva. U uskom planinskom prolazu iznad Egejskog mora sukobilo se 300 spartanskih vitezova s nadmoćnim snagama perzijskog kralja Kserksa. Od samog početka bilo je jasno da će Spartanci izgubiti bitku. Zašto su ipak bili spremni poginuti? Priča zarobljenog… Shares: Greece, History

Troilus and Criseyde Geoffrey Chaucer · 1483 · ★ 3.7 · 309p · ≈ 10h · Demanding A 1932 translation into modern English of a text written by Chaucer in c.1385, the story being set in Classical Antiquity around 800 B.C. and being a love story concerning its two principal characters, the Trojan soldier Troilus and his Greek paramour, Cressida, set during the ten years of the Trojan War between Greece and the city state of Troy. The story is based on Classical sources,… Shares: Greeks, Trojan War, Greek Mythology

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