Title The Iliad of Homer / retold by Barbara Leonie Picard ; illustrated by Joan Kiddell-Monroe

Published London : Oxford University Press, 1960

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Description vii, 208 pages : illustrations (part color) ; 21 cm Contents Includes index Summary For nine long years the Greeks had been at war with Troy. They had come to win back Helen, the wife of Greek King Menelaus, whom Paris, son of the king of Troy had stolen from him. The Iliad tells of the tenth year of war when Achilles quarrels with King Agamemnon, with disastrous consequences for the Greeks Notes First written by Homer about three thousand years ago Includes index Bibliography Includes index Audience For children Subject Homer. Iliad. Homer. Iliad. German & Greek SUBJECT Homer. Iliad. German & Greek. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n86811573 Subject Achilles (Mythological character) Homer. Epic poetry, Greek -- Translations into English. Greek poetry. Heroes -- Mythology -- Greece -- Juvenile literature. Mythology, Classical. Mythology, Greek -- Juvenile literature. Mythology, Greek. Trojan War in literature Trojan War -- Juvenile fiction. Trojan War -- Juvenile literature. Trojan War. Genre/Form Fiction. Author Homer. Iliad. Picard, Barbara Leonie. LC no. 60016125 ISBN 0192745174 (1975 printing)

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