The Troy Stone

The Troy Stone
Author: Stephen Rabley
Publisher: Penguin Longman
Total Pages: 14
Release: 2008
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 9781405880718

Mark Jackson is on holiday in Turkey. He visits the old city of Troy and finds a yellow stone. I know this stone, he thinks. Suddenly Mark goes back in time. He can see a beautiful city, soldiers and a big wooden horse.

Troy Stone Art

Troy Stone Art
Author: Troy Stone
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2019-04-12
Genre:
ISBN: 9780368594700

Troy Stone's original art and whimsical interpretations of fairy tales, fables, nursery rhymes and children's stories are a delight for all ages. His artistry and way of seeing touches the heart and offers a clever and joyfully fresh perspective.

Helen of Troy

Helen of Troy
Author: Margaret George
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 632
Release: 2006-08-03
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1101218797

Acclaimed author Margaret George tells the story of the legendary Greek woman whose face "launched a thousand ships" in this New York Times bestseller. The Trojan War, fought nearly twelve hundred years before the birth of Christ, and recounted in Homer's Iliad, continues to haunt us because of its origins: one woman's beauty, a visiting prince's passion, and a love that ended in tragedy. Laden with doom, yet surprising in its moments of innocence and beauty, Helen of Troy is an exquisite page-turner with a cast of irresistible, legendary characters—Odysseus, Hector, Achilles, Menelaus, Priam, Clytemnestra, Agamemnon, as well as Helen and Paris themselves. With a wealth of material that reproduces the Age of Bronze in all its glory, it brings to life a war that we have all learned about but never before experienced.

Troy Stone Art

Troy Stone Art
Author: Troy Stone
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2019-04-12
Genre:
ISBN: 9780368594694

Troy Stone's original art and whimsical interpretations of fairy tales, fables, nursery rhymes and children's stories are a delight for all ages. His artistry and way of seeing touches the heart and offers a clever and joyfully fresh perspective.

The Skeleton Stone

The Skeleton Stone
Author: Troy Osgood
Publisher:
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2016-04-19
Genre:
ISBN: 9780692692769

Nestled in the mountains, Minoda was a small and peaceful mining village filled with industrious and hardworking people. Until the skeletons came. Overrun with the magical undead, can even the help of the wandering Far Rider, Culann Hawkfall, save the village? Or will the mystery of The Skeleton Stone doom the village forever? The Skeleton Stone is the first story from The Taleweaver's Song, a new family of fantasy adventures.

The Secrets of Troy

The Secrets of Troy
Author: Izabela Miszczak
Publisher: ASLAN Publishing House
Total Pages: 125
Release: 2020-01-17
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 8395313098

The tale of mighty Troy has tempted the travellers for thousands of years. The tragic fate of the powerful city of King Priam, sung by the semi-legendary bard called Homer, has been one of the most frequently retold dramas of all times. Even in the ancient times, when Asia Minor was colonised by the Greeks and later controlled by the Romans, the site of Troy was a great tourist attraction. When visiting this World Heritage Site, you will be following in the footsteps of the Persian ruler Xerxes, Alexander the Great of Macedonia, Roman Emperor Hadrian, and the Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II the Conqueror. Even if it is difficult to say with certainty that the archaeological site first excavated in the 19th century is the location of the Trojan War, the visit here brings many emotions and evokes the scenes from the Homer's story. By following this guidebook, you will be able to imagine brave Achilles chasing the Trojan prince Hector around the mighty fortifications of Troy. The book will also help you to understand the geography of the site and the surrounding countryside. On a bright day, you will see the remote Aegean Islands where the Greek ships had been hidden before the fall of the city. Looking in another direction, you will glimpse the distant outlines of Mount Ida - the favourite location of the Olympian gods who had played with the mythical heroes' fates like a game of chess. Moreover, this guidebook offers you a tour of the archaeological site that is, admittedly, quite difficult to understand with its multiple layers. All significant locations are described in great detail to add more satisfaction to the experience. Before you come to Troy, make sure to read the chapters devoted to the site's archaeology and history. Finally, the newly opened Troy Museum, located not far from the site, has been thoroughly presented in this book and you might want to visit it before taking a tour of the site. In this guidebook you will find a detailed plan of the site of Troy, showing all the main stops of the tour. The map of the region of Troad will assist you in putting Troy in the wider geographical context. It should be also helpful during the visit to the Troy Museum where the presented exhibits include not only the objects from Troy, but also from other nearby sites. The book provides practical information for the visitors such as ticket prices and opening hours as well as the transportation options from the city of Çanakkale. If all of this is not enough, there is a bibliography to satisfy the needs of the most inquiring readers.

The Women of Troy

The Women of Troy
Author: Pat Barker
Publisher: Anchor
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2021-08-24
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 038554670X

A daring and timely feminist retelling of The Iliad from the perspective of the women of Troy who endured it—an extraordinary follow up to The Silence of the Girls from the Booker Prize-winning author of The Regeneration Trilogy and “one of contemporary literature’s most thoughtful and compelling writers" (The Washington Post). Troy has fallen and the victorious Greeks are eager to return home with the spoils of an endless war—including the women of Troy themselves. They await a fair wind for the Aegean. It does not come, because the gods are offended. The body of King Priam lies unburied and desecrated, and so the victors remain in suspension, camped in the shadows of the city they destroyed as the coalition that held them together begins to unravel. Old feuds resurface and new suspicions and rivalries begin to fester. Largely unnoticed by her captors, the one time Trojan queen Briseis, formerly Achilles's slave, now belonging to his companion Alcimus, quietly takes in these developments. She forges alliances when she can, with Priam's aged wife the defiant Hecuba and with the disgraced soothsayer Calchas, all the while shrewdly seeking her path to revenge.

Three Stones Make a Wall

Three Stones Make a Wall
Author: Eric H. Cline
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 477
Release: 2018-11-06
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0691184259

From the bestselling author of 1177 B.C., a comprehensive history of archaeology—from its amateur beginnings to the cutting-edge science it is today In 1922, Howard Carter peered into Tutankhamun’s tomb for the first time, the only light coming from the candle in his outstretched hand. Urged to tell what he was seeing through the small opening he had cut in the door to the tomb, the Egyptologist famously replied, “I see wonderful things.” Carter’s fabulous discovery is just one of the many spellbinding stories told in Three Stones Make a Wall. Written by Eric Cline, an archaeologist with more than thirty seasons of excavation experience, this book traces the history of archaeology from an amateur pursuit to the cutting-edge science it is today by taking the reader on a tour of major archaeological sites and discoveries. Along the way, it addresses the questions archaeologists are asked most often: How do you know where to dig? How are excavations actually done? How do you know how old something is? Who gets to keep what is found? Taking readers from the pioneering digs of the eighteenth century to today’s exciting new discoveries, Three Stones Make a Wall is a lively and essential introduction to the story of archaeology.