'Help me,' says Helen Stoner. 'My sister died, and now I am going to die too.' Sherlock Holmes and Or Watson must answer the question of how Julia Stoner died, two years ago. If they cannot, then Helen Stoner will die too. But her house is very strange -and her stepfather, Or Grimesby Roylott, is very angry and does not want Holmes there. Who killed Julia, and how? And why did she say 'the speckled band!' before she died?
'I see Troy in flames years from now - because Paris brings disaster to us,' Queen Hecuba says about her son. Paris's father, King Priam, wants to kills him. But Paris lives, and later loves Helen - King Menelaus's queen - from Greece. When Paris brings Helen to Troy, war begins between the Trojans and Greeks. What happens when Paris's brother Hector and the Greek fighter Achilles meet in battle? Who wins the war, and how? Read Troy and find the answers.
Рассказы из греческой мифологии О Прекрасной Елене (спор богинь, Парис, ослепленный красотой Елены, кража красавицы и последовавшая война из-за нее, Троянский конь).
Using Euripides' play Helen as the main point of reference, C. W. Marshall's detailed study expands our understanding of Athenian tragedy and provides new interpretations of how Euripides created meaning in performance. Marshall focuses on dramatic structure to show how assumptions held by the ancient audience shaped meaning in Helen and to demonstrate how Euripides' play draws extensively on the satyr play Proteus, which was part of Aeschylus' Oresteia.
