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2) The Iliad
Author
Lexile measure
1330L
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
When Emily Wilson's translation of The Odyssey appeared in 2017--revealing the ancient poem in a contemporary idiom that was "fresh, unpretentious and lean" (Madeline Miller, Washington Post)--critics lauded it as "a revelation" (Susan Chira, New York Times) and "a cultural landmark" (Charlotte Higgins, Guardian) that would forever change how Homer is read in English. Now Wilson has returned with an equally revelatory translation of Homer's other...
Author
Series
Amsterdam studies in classical philology volume 14
Publisher
Brill
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"From the Booker Prize-winning author of the Regeneration trilogy comes a monumental new masterpiece, set in the midst of literature's most famous war. Pat Barker turns her attention to the timeless legend of The Iliad, as experienced by the captured women living in the Greek camp in the final weeks of the Trojan War. The ancient city of Troy has withstood a decade under siege of the powerful Greek army, who continue to wage bloody war over a stolen...
Author
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
"Kate McLoughlin's Authoring War is an ambitious and pioneering study of war writing across all literary genres from earliest times to the present day. Examining a range of cultures, she brings wide reading and close rhetorical analysis to illuminate how writers have met the challenge of representing violence, chaos and loss. War gives rise to problems of epistemology, scale, space, time, language and logic. She emphasises the importance of form to...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 12 - AR Pts: 27
Lexile measure
1060L
Language
English
Description
"When Elizabeth Bennet first meets eligible bachelor Fitzwilliam Darcy, she thinks him arrogant and conceited, while he struggles to remain indifferent to her good looks and lively mind. When she later discovers that Darcy has involved himself in the troubled relationship between his friend Bingley and her beloved sister Jane, she is determined to dislike him more than ever"--Book cover p. [4].
Series
Publisher
Teaching Co
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Professor J. Rufus Fears presents his choices of some of the most essential writings in history. These are works that shaped the minds of great individuals and that offer an extraodrdinary gift of wisdom to those willing to receive it. Focus is on intellectual history and ethics, taking the underlying ideas of each great work and revealing how these ideas can be put to use in a moral and ethical life. From the Aeneid and the Book of Job to Othello...
12) Troy
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Language
English
Description
In 1193 B.C., Prince Paris, the son of the King of Troy falls in love with Helen, the wife of the king of Sparta, and convinces her to follow him away from her husband, Menelaus. The the result is an epic war. The Greeks sail to Troy and lay siege. Achilles, the greatest warrior in all the world, is called in to fight against Troy and give Greece the upper hand. Hector, the eldest son of Priam, King of Troy, and the greatest Trojan warrior embodies...
13) Troy High
Author
Publisher
Amulet Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
720L
Language
English
Description
Best friends Cassie and Greg get caught in the middle of a decades-old football rivalry between their high school teams, the Spartans and the Trojans, in this novel loosely based on Homer's classic tale, The Iliad.
Author
Series
Great books of the Western world volume 4
Publisher
Encyclopædia Britannica
Pub. Date
[1952]
Language
English
Description
A retelling of Homer's account of the Trojan War, and of the story of Odysseus' adventures on his homeward voyage.
18) Troy
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
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...
19) The luck of Troy
Author
Series
Publisher
Puffin
Pub. Date
1967.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
1100L
Language
English
Description
A retelling of the Trojan War legend in which a Greek boy removes an ancient secret, Troy's "luck" from the temple.
20) Fun with colors
Publisher
Fun With Languages
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
A language-learning program for toddlers, featuring colors, objects, and classical music. Words and rhymes are presented in English and the new language to make learning colors fun.
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