Sleeper In The Sands, Holland,Tom

Автор: HollandTom
Название: Persian fire
ISBN: 0349117179 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780349117171
Издательство: Little Brown
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Описание: A brilliant new account of the world`s very first clash of civilisations between the Persians and the Greeks in 480BC.

Автор: HollandTom
Название: Rubicon
ISBN: 034911563X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780349115634
Издательство: Little Brown
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Описание: `The Book that really held me, in fact, obsessed me, was Rubicon . . . This is narrative history at its best. Bloody and labyrinthine political intrigue and struggle, brilliant oratory, amazing feats of conquest and cruelty` Ian McEwan, Books of the Year, Guardian

Автор: Holland,Tom
Название: Deliver us from evil
ISBN: 0349113610 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780349113616
Издательство: Little Brown
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Описание: A Restoration Tragedy of Revenge and Redemption

Автор: Tom Holland
Название: The Poison in the Blood
ISBN: 0349119643 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780349119649
Издательство: Little Brown
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Описание: The book tells the story of the poisoned arrow that shot Paris (as in Helen of Troy). In the beginning, Earth created monsters. One of these was the Hydra. Heracles killed it, then dipped his arrows in the venom of its blood. Years later, when his wife was abducted by a centaur, he killed the rapist with one of these arrows. The dying centaur told Heracles' wife to dip a robe in his blood, and give it to Heracles as a token of her love. Heracles put on the robe, and was burned alive by the poison. He built himself a funeral pyre, but no one would light it. Finally, a small boy named Philoctetes did as Heracles asked, and Heracles left him his arrows as a reward. It was with one of these arrows that Paris was shot. Dying, he was taken into the woods where there lived a goddess who had once loved Paris, and had the power of healing. But she refused to cure him, and sent him away. Repenting, she then hurried after him, but it was too late.