num_pages: 292
description: Formerly published as TALISMAN OF TROY, this novel has been retitled.A castaway tossed onto a deserted beach is the last survivor of a world that no longer exists. He has a terrible, fascinating story to tell - the true reason for which the Trojan War was fought ...The protagonist of this tale is Diomedes, the last of the great ancient Greek Homeric heroes, who seeks to return to his beloved homeland after years of war against Troy. But destiny has other plans for him. Betrayed by his wife, who plots to murder him and persecuted by hostile gods, he has no choice but to turn his sails west, towards Hesperia, the mysterious mist-shrouded land that will one day be called Italy. He ventures boldly into this new world, for he carries with him the magic Talisman of Troy, a mysterious, powerful idol that can make the nation that possesses it invincible ...
language: English
title: Heroes
titlecomplete: Heroes
characters: Menelaus, Helen of Troy, Sthenelus, Nemro, Ros, Anchialus, Telephus, Electra, Agamemnon, Pisistratus, Lamus, Clytemnestra (wife of Agamemnon), Malech, Aegiale, Andromache, Pyrrhus of Epirus, Aegisthus, Hippasus, Penelope (wife of Odysseus), Aeneas, Diomedes, Evenus, Telemachus, Orestes, Myrsilus, Anaxibia
genres: Mythology, Greece, Historical, Historical Fiction, Novels, Greek Mythology, Italian Literature, Fantasy, Historical Romance, Fiction
ratings_count: 1382
places: Phocis, Mycenae, Argos, Hesperia
publisher: Pan Macmillan