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Two-and-a half millennia after it was created, Homer's Odyssey remains one of humanity's most memorable adventure stories. In this re-creation of Homer's classic as a young adult novel, we see the aftermath of the Trojan War through the eyes of Alexi, a fifteen-year-old Trojan boy. Orphaned by the war and enslaved by Odysseus himself, Alexi has a very different view of the conquering heroes of legend. Despite a simmering anger towards his captors, Alexi gradually develops a grudging respect for them. As the Greeks fight off the angry Cicones, weather a storm that pushes them far beyond charted waters, and nearly succumb to the blandishments of the bewitching Lotus-eaters, he realizes that they are not the demons they were said to be, but people like himself.
Author | : Patrick Bowman |
Publisher | : Odyssey of a Slave |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781553801108 |
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Two-and-a half millennia after it was created, Homer's Odyssey remains one of humanity's most memorable adventure stories. In this re-creation of Homer's classic as a young adult novel, we see the aftermath of the Trojan War through the eyes of Alexi, a fifteen-year-old Trojan boy. Orphaned by the war and enslaved by Odysseus himself, Alexi has a very different view of the conquering heroes of legend.Despite a simmering anger towards his captors, Alexi gradually develops a grudging respect for them. As the Greeks fight off the angry Cicones, weather a storm that pushes them far beyond charted waters, and nearly succumb to the blandishments of the bewitching Lotus-eaters, he realizes that they are not the demons they were said to be, but people like himself.At the same time, Alexi's quick thinking, bravery, and the healing skills that he learned from his father prove to his captors that he is no ordinary slave. His key role in their escape from the Cyclops earns the respectof his master, Odysseus, and a striking discovery during their escape gives his life a newfound purpose.Straddling the boundary between historical fiction and mythology, Torn from Troy is written in a hard, realistic style and brings to life the travails of a bronze-age slave of the Greeks in a form that will appeal especially to teen boys. While this book is the first volume of the author's Odyssey of a Slave trilogy, it is a compelling and fully-realized work on its own.
Author | : Padraic Colum |
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Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 1928 |
Genre | : Achilles (Greek mythology) |
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An account of the Trojan War as told by Menelaus to Telemachus. Grades 5-9.
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The second volume in the trilogy that revisions Homer’s Odyssey is once again told from the viewpoint of Alexi, the young Trojan boy. Captured by Odysseus after the fall of Troy, Alexi is forced to accompany the Greeks on their sea journey home to Ithaca. Cursed by the Sea God contains many of the iconic adventures of the homeward journey, including the encounter with the keeper of the winds, the descent into Hades, the fateful visit to the cannibal Laestrygonians, the encounters with Circe the sorceress, the songs of the Sirens, and the deadly passage between the monster Scylla and the whirlpool Charybdis. Having earned his master’s respect in saving him from the Sirens, Alexi loses it all though mischance, and his own circumstances take a turn for the worse as he is given away to the most brutal soldier on the ship. It takes all of Alexi’s skill and determination just to stay alive. The first volume in the trilogy, Torn from Troy, was nominated for the 2012 OLA Red Maple Award and has proved to be a best seller.
Author | : Quintus Smyrnaeus |
Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 2016-08-23 |
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ISBN | : 9781537213392 |
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Originally written in Greek, sometime about the middle of the 4th Century A.D. Translation by A.S. Way. Show Excerpt Later on, he makes Menelaus slay Deiphobus unresisting, "heavy with wine," whereas Homer ("Odyssey" viii. 517-20) makes him offer such a magnificent resistance, that Odysseus and Menelaus together could not kill him without the help of Athena. In fact, we may say that, though there are echoes of the "Iliad" all through the poem, yet, wherever Homer has, in the "Odyssey," given the outline-sketch of an effective scene, Quintus has uniformly neglected to develop it, has sometimes substituted something much weaker -- as though he had not the "Odyssey" before him! For this we have no satisfactory explanation to offer. He may have set his own judgment above Homer -- a most unlikely hypothesis: he may have been consistently following, in the framework of his story, some original now lost to us: there may be more, and longer, lacunae in the text than any editors have ventured to indicate: but, whatever theory we adopt, it must be based on mere conjecture. The Greek text here given is that of Ko
Author | : Padraic Colum |
Publisher | : Alpha Edition |
Total Pages | : 104 |
Release | : 2021-07-05 |
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ISBN | : 9789354757419 |
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This book has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and designed. These books are not made of scanned copies of their original work and hence the text is clear and readable.
Author | : Padraic Colum |
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Total Pages | : 254 |
Release | : 1956 |
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An account of the Trojan War as told by Menelaus to Telemachus. Grades 5-9.
Author | : Quintus (Smyrnaeus) |
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Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 1968 |
Genre | : History |
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Chronicle of events of the Trojan War from the death of Hector to the departure of the Greeks from Troy. Written about 360 A.D.
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Release | : 2017-07 |
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ISBN | : 9781636002231 |
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Author | : Padriac Colum |
Publisher | : Hardpress Publishing |
Total Pages | : 136 |
Release | : 2010-01 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 9781407617152 |
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