The war between the Greeks and the city of Troy had been going on for ten years when the boy Asterius slipped outside the city walls and witnessed the murder of Palmedes in the Greek camp. His escape route, a water pipe, was later used by the great Odysseus himself to visit Helen, whose kidnapping b
The Windswept City: A Novel of the Trojan War
โ Scribed by Henry Treece
- Book ID
- 111976461
- Publisher
- Meredith
- Year
- 1967
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 1 MB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780241912164
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โฆ Synopsis
The war between the Greeks and the city of Troy had been going on for ten years when the boy Asterius slipped outside the city walls and witnessed the murder of Palmedes in the Greek camp. His escape route, a water pipe, was later used by the great Odysseus himself to visit Helen, whose kidnapping by Priamm's younger son Paris has set off the siege of Troy.
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