Troy /
Fry, Stephen,1957-author.
Fry, Stephen,1957-narrator.
The story of Troy speaks to all of us -- the kidnapping of Helen, a queen celebrated for her beauty, sees the Greeks launch a thousand ships against that great city, to which they will lay siege for ten whole and very bloody years. It is Zeus, the king of the gods, who triggers war when he asks the Trojan prince Paris to judge the fairest goddess of them all. Aphrodite bribes Paris with the heart of Helen, wife of King Menelaus of the Greeks, and, naturally, nature takes its course. It is a terrible, brutal war with casualties on all sides. The Greeks cannot defeat the Trojans since Achilles, the Greek's boldest warrior, is consumed with jealousy over an ally's choice of love, the Trojan slave Briseis, and will not fight...
Read by Stephen Fry.
The story of Troy speaks to all of us -- the kidnapping of Helen, a queen celebrated for her beauty, sees the Greeks launch a thousand ships against that great city, to which they will lay siege for ten whole and very bloody years. It is Zeus, the king of the gods, who triggers war when he asks the Trojan prince Paris to judge the fairest goddess of them all. Aphrodite bribes Paris with the heart of Helen, wife of King Menelaus of the Greeks, and, naturally, nature takes its course. It is a terrible, brutal war with casualties on all sides. The Greeks cannot defeat the Trojans since Achilles, the Greek's boldest warrior, is consumed with jealousy over an ally's choice of love, the Trojan slave Briseis, and will not fight...
Helen, of Troy, Queen of Sparta.
Legends
Trojan War.
Gods, Greek.
Mythology, Greek.