![]() The Iliad is not the complete story of Troy, nor indeed of the whole of the Greek war against Troy it is the story of a single episode and its resolution with Achilles’ return to the war. Which brought countless sufferings upon the Greeks Homer, Iliad 1.1-2 Sing, goddess, the accursed anger of Peleus’ son, Achilles, The theme is announced in the first words of the poem: This leads him to withdraw from the fighting between the Greeks and Trojans. ![]() Homer’s epic poem is the story of the anger of the greatest of the Greek heroes, Achilles. Well, in the first place this is not only a re-telling of the story of the Iliad. ![]() I had read both of those earlier works and purchased a copy of Troy both because I had so much enjoyed the earlier books and because I was interested to see what Stephen Fry could do with a topic which was the subject of the foundational poem of western literature: Homer’s Iliad. Stephen Fry’s Troy is the third of his Classics-themed books, following from his earlier Mythosand Heroes. ![]()
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