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Penguin audiobook The Aeneid by Virgil, narrator Richard Pasco
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Penguin audiobook The Aeneid by Virgil, narrator Richard PascoThe Aeneid is a Latin epic written by Virgil in the 1st century BCE (between 29 and 19 BCE) that tells the legendary story of Aeneas, a Trojan who travelled to Italy, where he became the ancestor of the Romans. It is written in dactylic hexameter. The first six of the poem's twelve books tell the story of Aeneas' wanderings from Troy to Italy, and the poem's second half treats the Trojans' ultimately victorious war upon the Latins, under whose name Aeneas and his Trojan followers are destined to be subsumed.


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Tags: Aeneid, Aeneas, Virgil, story, narrator, Trojan, Italy
How Carrots Won the Trojan War: Curious (but True) Stories of Common Vegetables
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How Carrots Won the Trojan War: Curious (but True) Stories of Common VegetablesHow Carrots Won the Trojan War: Curious (but True) Stories of Common Vegetables

 How Carrots Won the Trojan War is a delightful collection of little-known stories about the origins, legends, and historical significance of 23 of the world’s most popular vegetables. Curious cooks, gardeners, and casual readers alike will be fascinated by these far-fetched tales of their favorite foods’ pasts. Readers will discover why Roman gladiators were massaged with onion juice before battle, how celery contributed to Casanova’s conquests, how peas almost poisoned General Washington, and why some seventeenth-century turnips were considered degenerate.
 
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The Trojan Epic - Posthomerica
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The Trojan Epic - PosthomericaThe Trojan Epic - Posthomerica

Composed in the third century A.D., the Trojan Epic is the earliest surviving literary evidence for many of the traditions of the Trojan War passed down from ancient Greece. Also known as the Posthomerica, or "sequel to Homer," the Trojan Epic chronicles the course of the war after the burial of Troy's greatest hero, Hektor.


 
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The Trojan Women (Greek Tragedy in New Translations)
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The Trojan Women (Greek Tragedy in New Translations)The Trojan Women (Greek Tragedy in New Translations)

Among surviving Greek tragedies only Euripides' Trojan Women shows us the extinction of a whole city, an entire people. Despite its grim theme, or more likely because of the centrality of that theme to the deepest fears of our own age, this is one of the relatively few Greek tragedies that regularly finds its way to the stage. Here the power of Euripides' theatrical and moral imagination speaks clearly across the twenty-five centuries that separate our world from his. 
 
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Trojan Odyssey
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Trojan OdysseyTrojan Odyssey

A hurricane threatens an undersea resort hotel; meanwhile, Dirk Pitt's twin offspring are trapped at the bottom of the ocean in Pisces, an underwater laboratory. Oh, and Dirk himself swoops in to rescue the hotel, and its guests--but what about his children? Cussler has written a lot of seabound thrillers, and he clearly knows how to put one together to get maximum excitement from minimal material.
 
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