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Myth-o-mania volume 9
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English
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In this updated version of Greek mythology, Hades, King of the Underworld, reveals the truth about Helen of Troy and the Trojan War.
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Dark Olympus volume 3
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English
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"Achilles Kallis vowed that he'd do whatever it took to claw his way into Olympus's inner circle. Now that the former Ares is gone and the coveted role has opened to anyone with the strength to claim it, he and his partner, Patroclus Fotos, plan to both compete and double their odds of winning. Neither expect the infamous beauty Helen Kasios to be part of the prize ... or for the sparks that fly when the three of them meet. Zeus may have decided Helen...
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"Archaeologist Riley Smith has been obsessed with Helen of Troy since she was a small girl, trailing her professor father all over the world in search of the tomb of the world's most beautiful woman. Professor Smith set out to prove that, instead of a myth, Helen had been a living, breathing queen who inspired Homer to write The Iliad. Forensic sculptor Eve Duncan has the unusual skills needed to recreate the face that launched a thousand ships --...
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xvii, 289 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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English
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After more than 2,500 years, the story of Helen of Troy remains one of the world's most electrifying myths about the destructive power of beauty. Much like the ancient Greeks, our own relationship to female beauty is fraught with both desire and danger: we worship and fear it, advertise it yet try desperately to control it. No other myth captures this ambivalence better than that of Helen.
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223 pages : chiefly illustrations, maps, genealogical tables ; 28 cm
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English
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Draws on ancient myths, medieval romances, and modern scholarship to offer a graphic novel portraying the Trojan war, from the kidnapping of Queen Helen by Paris to the gathering of the ancient kings of Greece to retrieve her.
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223 pages : chiefly illustrations, maps, genealogical table ; 28 cm
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English
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The second in a graphic novel series detailing the events of the mythological Trojan War, this volume tells of Helen's arrival in Troy, Kassandra's prediction of doom, the relationship that shapes Achilles' destiny, and Agamemnon's choice to sacrifice his daughter.
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xxxvii, 458 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm
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English
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For close to three thousand years, Helen of Troy has been both the embodiment of absolute female beauty and a reminder of the terrible power that beauty can wield. Because of her double marriage to the Greek king Menelaus and the Trojan prince Paris, Helen was held responsible for an enduring enmity between East and West. But who was she? Helen exists in many guises: a matriarch from the Age of Heroes; the focus of a cult that conflated Helen the...
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514 pages : map ; 23 cm
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English
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"This is the epic retelling of Troy, the most famous war in myth or history, in which four strong yet misunderstood women take center stage, their stories so intricately and beautifully woven together that the result is an utterly spellbinding and immersive historical novel"--
The women of Troy take center stage -- and their stories will outlast us all. Andromache is cast as the doting wife of Prince Hector, yet her Amazon warrior name means "battler...
10) Troy
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It is the year 1250 B.C. during the late Bronze age. Two emerging nations clash after Paris, a Trojan prince, convinces Helen, Queen of Sparta, to leave her husband Menelaus, and sail with him back to Troy. After Menelaus finds out that his wife was taken by the Trojans, he asks his brother Agamemnon to help him get her back. Agamemnon sees this as an opportunity for power and sets off for Troy with 1,000 ships holding 50,000 Greeks. With the help...
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