The story of Troy has been told over and over in a thousand ways. There’s a huge range of novels about the Trojan War, the events leading up to it and the men and women whose lives were affected, so it’s difficult to find a book that doesn’t feel stale and predictable. Seguir leyendo »

Immortal Venus, to whose Name
Millions of Altars daily flame;
Daughter of Jove, whos flatt’ring Art
Knows well to wound a Wretch’d Heart;
- Sappho

Look up. The brightest, the most glorious object in the heavens, beside the Sun and Moon, is the luminous and lovely planet Venus. She is the Morning Star, the Evening Star and the Star of the Sea. To our distant ancestors she epitomised the joys of grace and beauty, and her passage across the sun became the stately dance of the goddess. Seguir leyendo »

As Iphigenia was sacrificed in Aulis for the Greeks, signifying the beginning of the Trojan War, Polyxena was sacrificed in Troy, signifying the end of that war. Seguir leyendo »

It was at the wedding feast of Peleus and the unhappy Thetis that the trouble all started. Seguir leyendo »

Agamemnon was the leader of the Greek forces at Troy, and his fleet was stalled in the Bay of Aulis. The ships had assembled there prior to sailing for Troy but a contrary wind held them back. Seguir leyendo »