Brutus of Troy: And the Quest for the Ancestry of the British

by Anthony Adolph

Book Overview

Just who did the British think they were? For much of the last 1,500 years, when the British looked back to their origins they saw the looming mythological figure of Brutus of Troy. A great-great-grandson of the love goddess Aphrodite through her Trojan son Aeneas (the hero of Virgil's Aeneid), Brutus accidentally killed his father and was exiled to Greece. He liberated the descendants of the Trojans who lived there in slavery and led them on an epic...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1473849179
• ISBN13: 9781473849174
• Release Date: January 2016
• Publisher: Pen and Sword Family History
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.3"