Troy: Our Greatest Story Retold
12 hrs. 28 min.
Language
Russian
Author
Stephen Fry
Author
Stephen Fry
Narrator
Alexey Bagdasarov
Narrator
Alexey Bagdasarov
Description
Stephen Fry’s “Troy. The Greatest Story Ever Told” is the third book in the astonishing ancient cycle by one of today’s brightest writers.
After the stories of gods (“Myth”) and people (“Heroes”), Stephen Fry continued his grand ancient cycle with the greatest tale—already more than three thousand years old.
The story of Troy and its heroes is fresh and relevant even now, though centuries stand between us. The ten-year war that, at the turn of the 13th and 12th centuries BCE, engulfed the entire Eastern Mediterranean and the surrounding regions became, thanks to Homer and his “Iliad,” an inexhaustible source of inspiration for all of Western civilization. The story of Troy still shapes our ideas of heroism, love, betrayal, revenge, treachery, disappointment, repentance, despair, and magnanimity.
In his third volume of great ancient tales, Stephen Fry offers us a true novel in the modern sense—just as dynamic, gripping, and moving. Helen, Paris, Achilles, Patroclus, Menelaus, Agamemnon, Priam, Hecuba—these and many other names have almost become common nouns, but Fry gives this immortal symphony of voices and fates a brilliant, very contemporary sound.
After the stories of gods (“Myth”) and people (“Heroes”), Stephen Fry continued his grand ancient cycle with the greatest tale—already more than three thousand years old.
The story of Troy and its heroes is fresh and relevant even now, though centuries stand between us. The ten-year war that, at the turn of the 13th and 12th centuries BCE, engulfed the entire Eastern Mediterranean and the surrounding regions became, thanks to Homer and his “Iliad,” an inexhaustible source of inspiration for all of Western civilization. The story of Troy still shapes our ideas of heroism, love, betrayal, revenge, treachery, disappointment, repentance, despair, and magnanimity.
In his third volume of great ancient tales, Stephen Fry offers us a true novel in the modern sense—just as dynamic, gripping, and moving. Helen, Paris, Achilles, Patroclus, Menelaus, Agamemnon, Priam, Hecuba—these and many other names have almost become common nouns, but Fry gives this immortal symphony of voices and fates a brilliant, very contemporary sound.
