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The Story of Troy

Name: The Story of Troy
Author: Michael Clarke

by Michael Clarke, Homer

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Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

Credits

Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Taavi Kalju and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net.

Release date

2006-02-08

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

Subjects

Readers Achilles (Mythological character) -- Juvenile literature Trojan War -- Juvenile literature Epic poetry, Greek -- Adaptations

About the authors

Michael Clarke

d. 1916

Little reliable biographical information is easy to confirm for this early 20th-century writer, but surviving editions show a Michael Clarke connected with school retellings of classical stories. The books attributed to him include accessible versions of myths and epics prepared for young readers.

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Homer

-750–-650

Tradition remembers this ancient Greek poet as the voice behind the Iliad and the Odyssey, two epics that shaped storytelling for centuries. Even though little can be known for certain about the historical person, the poems linked to him still feel vivid, dramatic, and deeply human.

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