Troy av Stephen (Audiobook Narrator) Fry

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<p><b>Brought to you by Penguin.</b><br><br><b>Following the bestselling retellings of the Greek myths in <i>Mythos</i> and <i>Heroes</i>, Stephen Fry''s bewitching third volume <i>Troy</i> - concerning love and war, passion and power - is now ready for ordering.</b><br><br>The story of Troy speaks to all of us - the kidnapping of Helen, a queen celebrated for her beauty, sees the Greeks launch a thousand ships against the city of Troy, to which they will lay siege for ten whole and very bloody years.<br><br>It is Zeus, the king of the gods, who triggers the war when he asks the Trojan prince Paris to judge the fairest goddess of them all. Aphrodite bribes Paris with the heart of Helen, wife of King Menelaus of the Greeks, and, naturally, nature takes its course.<br><br>It is a terrible, brutal war with casualties on all sides as well as strained relations between allies. The Greek''s most fearsome warrior, Achilles, argues with King Agamemnon, his commander, over another woman, the Tr