Briseis has survived the Trojan War, but peacetime may turn out to be even more dangerous. Troy has fallen and the victorious Greeks are eager to return home with the spoils of an endless war-including the. She forges alliances where she can - with young, dangerously naive Amina, with defiant, aged Hecuba, with Calchus, the disgraced priest - and begins to see the path to a kind of revenge. Largely unnoticed by her squabbling captors, Briseis remains in the Greek encampment. The Women of Troy Paperback Jby Barker Pat (Author) 2,105 ratings Kindle 11.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Hardcover 15.29 53 Used from 4.98 29 New from 15.29 Paperback 24.59 2 Used from 12.56 4 New from 17. And, in these empty, restless days, the hierarchies that held them together begin to fray, old feuds resurface and new suspicions fester. The gods have been offended - the body of Priam lies desecrated, unburied - and so the victors remain in limbo, camped in the shadow of the city they destroyed, pacing at the edge of an unobliging sea. All they need is a good wind to lift their sails.īut the wind does not come. They can return home victors, loaded with their spoils: their stolen gold, stolen weapons, stolen women. Following her bestselling, critically acclaimed The Silence of the Girls, Pat Barker continues her extraordinary retelling of one of our greatest myths. Following her bestselling, critically acclaimed The Silence of the Girls, Pat Barker continues her extraordinary retelling of one of our greatest myths.
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