![]() ![]() Odysseus is his usual wily self, and largely the most sympathetic figure in the story, but he becomes unexplainably war mongering when it comes to the Iphigenia episode, which Gates largely takes, point for point, from the Euripides play about her sacrifice at Aulis. ![]() ![]() This might have been a more interesting approach if Gates had something new to say about the characters, but her Helen and Paris mostly emerge as figures we've seen before: the callous beauty queen and the vain but handsome simpleton. Aeneas and Andromache are mentioned only once each, while Hector and Cassandra are background figures of only slightly more prominence. Missing are many of the iconic figures of the Trojan saga, namely Patroclus, Ajax, Neoptolemus, Nestor, Cressida, Astyanax, and Troilus. The sixth and final book in Doris Gates' Greek mythology collection, this retelling of the story of Troy glosses over most of the war and its aftermath to focus on key moments leading up to the war itself: the marriage of Helen to Menelaus, the Judgement of Paris, the abduction of Helen, the recruitment of Odysseus and Achilles, and the sacrifice of Iphigenia. ![]()
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