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Issue Details: First known date: 1998... 1998 The Song of Troy
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'It was a clash of arms that would echo through the millennia: a hard-fought conflict born of love, pride, greed and revenge; a decade-long siege of the ancient world's greatest city from which nobody will escape unscathed.

'As urgent and passionate as if told for the first time, international besteller Colleen McCullough breathes life into legend, swinging our sympathies from Greece to Troy and back again as they move inexorably towards a fate not even the gods themselves can avert. Here are Greek princess Helen, sensuous and self-indulgent, who deserts a dull husband for the sake of the equally self-indulgent Trojan prince Paris; the haunted warrior Achilles; the heroically noble Hektor; the subtle and brilliant Odysseus; Priam, King of Troy, doomed to make the wrong decisions for the right reasons; and Agamemnon, King of Kings, who consents to the unspeakable to launch his thousand ships, incurring the terrifying wrath of his wife, Klytemnestra.'(Publication summary) 

Notes

  • Dedication: For my brother, Carl, who died in Crete on September 5th, 1965, rescuing some women from the sea.
  • Epigraph: Death can find nothing to expose in him that is not beautiful. - Homer, Iliad 22.73
  • Also translated into other languages not listed here.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • London,
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      England,
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      United Kingdom (UK),
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      Western Europe, Europe,
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      Orion ,
      1998 .
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      Extent: 404p.
      Description: illus., map
      Reprinted: 1999
      ISBN: 0752814133, 0752817639 (pbk)
    • London,
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      England,
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      c
      United Kingdom (UK),
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      Western Europe, Europe,
      :
      Head of Zeus ,
      2014 .
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      Image courtesy of publisher's website.
      Extent: 496p.p.
      Note/s:
      • Published 1st March 2014
      ISBN: 9781781857908 (ebk)
Alternative title: A cancao de Troia
Language: Portuguese
    • Lisbon,
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      Portugal,
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      Western Europe, Europe,
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      Difel ,
      1999 .
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      Extent: 460p.
      Reprinted: 2000
      ISBN: 9722904442

Other Formats

  • Sound recording.
  • Large print.

Works about this Work

The Song of Troy: The Postmodernist Subversion of Homer's Iliad Li Ping , 2004 single work criticism
— Appears in: Looking Back and Forward : Selected Papers of the 8th International Conference of Australian Studies in China 2004; (p. 454-461)
Paperbacks Graham Clark , 1999 single work review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 13 March 1999; (p. 8)

— Review of The Song of Troy Colleen McCullough , 1998 single work novel
Building Epic Tomes Diane Brown , 1998 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , August no. 203 1998; (p. 22)

— Review of The Song of Troy Colleen McCullough , 1998 single work novel
A Polyphony of Lays Paul Cartledge , 1998 single work review
— Appears in: The Times Literary Supplement , 8 May no. 4962 1998; (p. 23)

— Review of The Song of Troy Colleen McCullough , 1998 single work novel
Prose or Poetry, It's a Ripping Yarn Tony Baker , 1998 single work review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 30 May 1998; (p. 17)

— Review of The Song of Troy Colleen McCullough , 1998 single work novel
Coming Soon 1998 single work review
— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 29 March 1998; (p. 23)

— Review of The Song of Troy Colleen McCullough , 1998 single work novel
Robust Re-Telling of Homer's Epic Debra Adelaide , 1998 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 2 May 1998; (p. 22)

— Review of The Song of Troy Colleen McCullough , 1998 single work novel
Beyond the Face that Launched a Thousand Ships, a Tale of Passion Debra Adelaide , 1998 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 30 May 1998; (p. 9)

— Review of The Song of Troy Colleen McCullough , 1998 single work novel
Prose or Poetry, It's a Ripping Yarn Tony Baker , 1998 single work review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 30 May 1998; (p. 17)

— Review of The Song of Troy Colleen McCullough , 1998 single work novel
A Polyphony of Lays Paul Cartledge , 1998 single work review
— Appears in: The Times Literary Supplement , 8 May no. 4962 1998; (p. 23)

— Review of The Song of Troy Colleen McCullough , 1998 single work novel
The Song of Troy: The Postmodernist Subversion of Homer's Iliad Li Ping , 2004 single work criticism
— Appears in: Looking Back and Forward : Selected Papers of the 8th International Conference of Australian Studies in China 2004; (p. 454-461)
Colleen of Troy Penelope Debelle , 1998 single work biography
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 9 May 1998; (p. 3)
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