Old World Classics · Book 1
Troy: The War the Gods Wanted
by Alexander Emmerich
The great stories of the ancient world, retold as gripping novels – fast, vivid and close to the characters, following the ancient sources without inventing a single event.
Reading Order
The cycle in order
Each novel stands on its own – together they tell the whole story, from the Judgement of Paris to the founding of Rome.
Book 1
Troy: The War the Gods Wanted
An Old World Classic
Ten years of war. A city that must fall. And gods who wanted exactly that.
A shepherd on Mount Ida is asked to judge which of three goddesses is the most beautiful. He chooses Aphrodite – and the prize she promises him: Helen, the wife of another king. What begins as a judgement becomes the war that gathers the princes of Greece before Troy: Agamemnon, Achilles, Hector, Odysseus – and Aeneas, who carries out of the burning city what is left of Troy.
The whole Trojan War in one novel – from the Judgement of Paris to the voyage home of the victors.
Book 2
Odysseus: The Long Road to Ithaca
An Old World Classic
Troy has fallen, and the cleverest of the Greeks only wants to go home. It will take him ten more years. The Cyclops, Circe, the Sirens, Calypso – and at the end of the journey a house full of suitors, a son who has never known his father and a wife who has waited longer than anyone believed possible.
Coming soon
Book 3
Aeneas: The Last Trojan
An Old World Classic
Twenty ships. A man carrying his father on his shoulders – and a goddess who hates him. Aeneas flees the burning city in search of the land the oracles promised him. His road leads through storms, into the arms of Queen Dido of Carthage, down into the underworld and into a war in Italy – the war from which Rome will one day rise.
Coming soon
Book 4
Agamemnon: The Curse of the House of Atreus
An Old World Classic
The king who led the Greeks to Troy comes home victorious – to a palace where his wife has not forgotten the daughter he sacrificed. The story of a family cursed for generations, and of a homecoming that becomes a reckoning.
Coming soon
Book 5
Hercules
An Old World Classic
The greatest hero of the ancient world and his twelve labours – coming to Old World Classics.
Coming soon
Ancient stories, told for readers who want to know the whole tale – not just the legend.
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