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Tales of Troy: Ulysses, The Sacker of Cities is a book written by Andrew Lang. It is a collection of stories that retell the legendary tales of ancient Greece, specifically focusing on the adventures of Ulysses, the cunning hero who played a pivotal role in the Trojan War. The... Read Full Overview

Andrew Lang (31 March 1844 - 20 July 1912) was a Scots poet, novelist, literary critic, and contributor to the field of anthropology. He is best known as a collector of folk and fairy tales. The Andrew Lang lectures at the University of St Andrews are named after him. Lang was... Read Full Overview

Tales of Troy: Ulysses, the Sacker of Cities, a classical and rare book that has been considered essential throughout human history, so that this work is never forgotten, we at Alpha Editions have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for... Read Full Overview

Tales of Troy: Ulysses, The Sacker of Cities is a book by Andrew Lang that recounts the legendary tales of Ulysses, the cunning Greek hero who played a pivotal role in the Trojan War. The book is a collection of short stories that retell the adventures of Ulysses, from his early... Read Full Overview

Andrew Lang (1844-1912) was a prolific Scots man of letters, a poet, novelist, literary critic and contributor to anthropology. He now is best known as the collector of folk and fairy tales. As a journalist, poet, critic and historian, he soon made a reputation as one of the... Read Full Overview

"Tales of Troy" from Andrew Lang. Scots poet, novelist, literary critic, and contributor to the field of anthropology (1844-1912).

When Autolycus gave Ulysses his name, he said that he must come to stay with him, when he was a big boy, and he would get splendid presents. Ulysses was told about this, so, when he was a tall lad, he crossed the sea and drove in his chariot to the old man's house on Mount Parnassus... Read Full Overview

Andrew Lang draws on his classical learning to recount the Homeric legend of the wars between the Greeks and the Trojans. Paris, Helen of Troy, Achilles, Hector, Ulysses, the Amazons and the Wooden Horse all figure in this magical introduction to one of the greatest legends ever... Read Full Overview

Long ago, in a little island called Ithaca, on the west coast of Greece, there lived a king named Laertes. His kingdom was small and mountainous. People used to say that Ithaca "lay like a shield upon the sea," which sounds as if it were a flat country. But in those times shields... Read Full Overview

Long ago, in a little island called Ithaca, on the west coast of Greece, there lived a king named Laertes. His kingdom was small and mountainous. People used to say that Ithaca "lay like a shield upon the sea," which sounds as if it were a flat country. But in those times shields... Read Full Overview

Long ago, in a little island called Ithaca, on the west coast of Greece, there lived a king named Laertes. His kingdom was small and mountainous. People used to say that Ithaca "lay like a shield upon the sea," which sounds as if it were a flat country. But in those times shields... Read Full Overview

There was a prophecy that Priam's wife would give birth to a burning torch, so, when Paris was born, Priam sent a servant to carry the baby into a wild wood on Mount Ida, and leave him to die or be eaten by wolves and wild cats. The servant left the child, but a shepherd found... Read Full Overview

बहुत समय पहले, ग्रीस के पश्चिमी तट पर इथाका नामक... Read Full Overview