This book is part of a book series called Kingfisher Epics .
There are 176 pages in this book. This book was published 2003 by Pan Macmillan .
"Homer" is the name given to the author or authors of the ancient Greek epic poems "Iliad" and "Odyssey", and could represent a single man who lived sometime between 800 and 900 B. C. , or it could represent a group of poets who collaborated on these major works. THANOS TSILIS was born in Athens in 1977, and studied graphic arts, illustration and animation. Most of his work has been in illustration, though in 2002 he also started working for animated films. From 2005 to 2008 he worked for Total Eclipse Games, and since then has worked mostly as a concept artist for advertising and digital entertainment. BEATRICE SAMPATAKOU is one of Greece's best-known retellers of Greek mythology, and has written the stories of the gods and goddesses of her literary tradition for all levels of readers. Her Greek-language versions of the Iliad and Odyssey are the standard versions used in Greek schools. Nick McCarthy is a highly-respected author who writes extensively for television and radio as well as writing books. His retelling of A Tale of Two Cities won the Sony Award for best Adaptation. Victor Ambrus has won the World Wildlife Award and has been twice awarded the Kate Greenaway Gold Medal for the best illustrated children's book of the year. He has illustrated over one hundred books for young people and has written or adapted more than a dozen children's books himself. Victor Ambrus is a well-known illustrator of over 300 children's picture books.
This book contains the following story:
The Iliad
The story of the ten year war that preceded Odysseus's long journey home to Ithaca begins with Prince Paris's abduction of Helen of Sparta, and goes on to the quarrel between Agamemnon and Achilles, and the great battles under the walls of Troy towards the end of the siege that result in the deaths of Patroclus, the Trojan hero Hector, and finally Achilles himself.
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