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Reading Troy
From the wrath of Achilles to the homecoming of Odysseus — the whole Trojan cycle, chapter by chapter, across four epics.
The Iliad
The wrath of Achilles and ten years before the walls of Troy.
- Book 1 The Plague and the Wrath
- Book 2 The False Dream; the Catalogue of Ships
- Book 3 Helen on the Walls; the Duel of Paris and Menelaus
- Book 4 The Oaths Broken; the Pandarus Arrow
- Book 5 The Aristeia of Diomedes; Gods Wounded
- Book 6 Hector and Andromache at the Scaean Gate
- Book 7 Hector Duels Ajax; the Greek Wall Is Built
- Book 8 Zeus Tips the Scales; Battle by the Ships Begins
- Book 9 The Embassy to Achilles
- Book 10 The Doloneia: Night-spies Diomedes and Odysseus
- Book 11 The Aristeia of Agamemnon; the Greeks Driven Back
- Book 12 Battle at the Wall; Hector Breaks the Gate
- Book 13 Poseidon's Aristeia by the Ships
- Book 14 The Beguiling of Zeus by Hera
- Book 15 Zeus Awakes; the Tide Returns Against the Greeks
- Book 16 The Aristeia and Death of Patroclus
- Book 17 The Fight over Patroclus's Body
- Book 18 Achilles Mourns; the Forging of the Shield
- Book 19 The Reconciliation: Briseis Returned
- Book 20 The Theomachy: Gods Take the Field
- Book 21 Achilles's Aristeia at the River Scamander
- Book 22 The Death of Hector
- Book 23 The Funeral Games of Patroclus
- Book 24 Priam's Ransom; Hector's Funeral
Posthomerica
What Homer left out — the fall of Troy completed.
- Book 1 Penthesilea the Amazon; her Death by Achilles
- Book 2 Memnon the Ethiopian; the Death of Antilochus
- Book 3 The Death of Achilles by Paris's Arrow
- Book 4 The Funeral Games of Achilles
- Book 5 The Judgement of the Arms; the Suicide of Ajax
- Book 6 Eurypylus Comes to Troy
- Book 7 Neoptolemus Brought from Scyros
- Book 8 The Death of Eurypylus
- Book 9 Philoctetes Recalled from Lemnos
- Book 10 The Death of Paris by the Arrow of Heracles
- Book 11 The Last Battles before the Walls
- Book 12 The Building of the Wooden Horse
- Book 13 The Sack of Troy
- Book 14 The Greek Departure; the Storm at Sea
The Aeneid
The Trojan remnant sails west, and Rome begins.
- Book 1 The Storm; Aeneas Cast Ashore at Carthage
- Book 2 The Fall of Troy: Aeneas's Account
- Book 3 The Wanderings of Aeneas
- Book 4 The Tragedy of Dido
- Book 5 The Funeral Games for Anchises in Sicily
- Book 6 The Descent to the Underworld; the Pageant of Heroes
- Book 7 Arrival in Latium; Allecto Inflames the War
- Book 8 Aeneas at the Site of Rome; the Shield Forged by Vulcan
- Book 9 The Trojan Camp Besieged; Nisus and Euryalus
- Book 10 The Battle; the Death of Pallas
- Book 11 The Funeral of Pallas; the Aristeia and Death of Camilla
- Book 12 The Duel of Aeneas and Turnus; the Poem's Abrupt Close
The Odyssey
The long voyage home, and what waits at the end of it.
- Book 1 Council of the Gods; Athena Visits Telemachus
- Book 2 Telemachus Calls Assembly; Sails for Pylos
- Book 3 Telemachus at Nestor's House
- Book 4 Menelaus and Helen at Sparta
- Book 5 Calypso Releases Odysseus; the Raft
- Book 6 Nausicaa on the Shore
- Book 7 Odysseus at the Palace of Alcinous
- Book 8 Demodocus Sings of Troy
- Book 9 The Cyclops Polyphemus
- Book 10 Aeolus's Bag of Winds; Circe Transforms the Crew
- Book 11 The Nekyia: Odysseus in the Underworld
- Book 12 Sirens, Scylla, Charybdis; the Cattle of the Sun
- Book 13 The Return to Ithaca; Athena's Disguise
- Book 14 Eumaeus the Swineherd
- Book 15 Telemachus Returns to Ithaca
- Book 16 Father and Son Reunited
- Book 17 Odysseus as Beggar at His Own Palace; Argus the Dog
- Book 18 The Fight with Irus; the Suitors at Supper
- Book 19 Penelope's Interview; the Scar Recognised by Eurycleia
- Book 20 Prelude to the Slaughter; the Suitors' Last Feast
- Book 21 The Stringing of the Bow
- Book 22 The Mnesterophonia: the Slaughter of the Suitors
- Book 23 Penelope Recognises Odysseus; the Bed of Olive
- Book 24 The Second Nekyia; Reconciliation and Peace
The Company
Cast portraits, maps, and atlases — the reference material for the journey.
Cast Portraits
Cast portrait: Apollo
Cast portrait: Helen
Cast portrait: Patroclus
Cast portrait: Briseis
Cast portrait: Hector
Cast portrait: Priam
Cast portrait: Achilles
Cast portrait: Cassandra
Cast portrait: Andromache
Cast portrait: Dido
Cast portrait: Anchises
Cast portrait: Aeneas
Cast portrait: Ascanius
Cast portrait: Turnus
Cast portrait: Clytemnestra
Cast portrait: Agamemnon
Forthcoming
Cast portrait: Athena
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Cast portrait: Telemachus
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Cast portrait: Penelope
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Cast portrait: Odysseus
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