Ilios The Fall of Troy: a Novel

Ilios is a re-imagining of the oldest and the greatest story in Western literature, indeed what many have called the foundation text, the epic clash of cultures we call the Trojan War as first told by Homer in The Iliad--a title that Homer did not give to his poem. But all later readers, in Greek, called it the Poem of Ilios, the epic title derived from the city of Ilios--the city later called Troia, that we know as Troy. In a thousand ships, it is said, the Greeks came from all the corners of Hellas commanded by Agamemnon, King and lord of all the Achaean peoples. They came with the manifest intention of despoiling Troy of its uncountable treasures, razing its high walls to dust, and taking back the woman abducted by Prince Paris and now held there, she who was Queen of Sparta, wife of Menelaus, but whom all the world called Helen of Troy. This book is a revised and rewritten version of the original novel, War Stories.