Cold calls: war music continued
"Helen, the world's most beautiful woman, the wife of Lord Menelaos of Sparta, left Greece in the company of Paris, the son of Priam, King of Troy. To repossess her, a thousand Greek ships sailed to Troy. Nine years have passed. The Greeks have not achieved their aim. Indeed, after a quarrel between Achilles their leading fighter and Agamemnon their king, the Trojans, led by Paris's brother, Prince Hector, have driven the Greeks off the plain of Troy and back behind the palisade protecting thei…
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- Full title :Cold calls : war music continued / Christopher Logue.
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"Helen, the world's most beautiful woman, the wife of Lord Menelaos of Sparta, left Greece in the company of Paris, the son of Priam, King of Troy. To repossess her, a thousand Greek ships sailed to Troy. Nine years have passed. The Greeks have not achieved their aim. Indeed, after a quarrel between Achilles their leading fighter and Agamemnon their king, the Trojans, led by Paris's brother, Prince Hector, have driven the Greeks off the plain of Troy and back behind the palisade protecting their ships. Achilles refuses to help them. It is night." "The scene is set for Cold Calls, the fifth and penultimate instalment of Logue's Homer, an ongoing project for both page and stage which has taken several decades to unfold."--Jacket.
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- Publication Date:2005.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Faber and Faber
- Place of Publication:London
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2005.
The Physical Object
- Description:44 pages ; : 20 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:0571202772, 9780571202775
- oclc:ocm57430761
- LC Classification:PR6023.O38
- Dewey Decimal:821.914
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