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consequences for everyone caught in the crossfire. Neil Packer`s pictures capture the beauty and remoteness of the setting, and bring a profound humanity to one of the finest literary achievements of Greek civilisation.

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Gillian Cross`s brilliant retelling & Neil Packer`s glorious illustrations bring to life Homer`s Iliad, one of the greatest stories ever told. Gillian Cross`s brilliant retelling & Neil Packer`s glorious illustrations bring to life Homer`s Iliad, one of the greatest stories ever told. The team behind The Odyssey (2012) now tell the story of the Trojan War. Cross`s vivid adaptation begins with a beauty contest: the prize, a golden apple. In return for securing her victory, the goddess Aphrodite helps Prince Paris abduct Helen, wife to the king of Sparta. Enraged, the king & his Greek allies wage war on the Trojans. Nine years later, the fighting still rages on, but the Greeks are beginning to quarrel among themselves
- Achilles & Agamemnon`s petty argument has dire consequences for everyone caught in the crossfire. Neil Packer`s pictures capture the beauty & remoteness of the setting, & bring a profound humanity to one of the finest literary achievements of Greek civilisation.

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