The fascinating historical-mythological epic, with its enormous weight of pain and death, but over all the splendid timeless scenes of the Trojan War. The fascinating historical-mythological epic, with its enormous weight of pain and death, starts with a simple love triangle whose sides are: Elena, ”femme fatale” ante litteram of the Homeric legend; Paris, hero in possession of a classic virile charm; Menelaus, pale ruler of Sparta, overwhelmed by the continuous confrontation with his valiant brother Agamemnon. The meeting between these characters creates a destiny that is filled with pathos: Paris, son of King Priam and who is madly in love with Helen, escapes with her; Menelaus, former husband of Helen, is blinded by jealousy and lust for revenge, will declare war on Troy, beginning a ruinous tragedy that will last ten years. Around this central nucleus, infinite events come to life that are linked by invisible Fate, now tangling now dissolving: unfathomable and mysterious, the true deus ex machina of Greek mythology, Fate exceeds, with its absolute determinism, even the will of the gods. In this fictionalized version of the Trojan epic, the author seems to already know that readers will remain, in spite of themselves, ensnared by the plot and that, like children placed in front of a fairy tale, at the end of each chapter they will ask with irrepressible curiosity: ”And then ?”.
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Dionigi Cristian Lentini. Romanticised History Of The War Of Troy
PREFACE
Prologue
Prometheus, the wedding of Thesis and Peleus and the apple of discord
Paris' judgment and return to Troy
The abduction of Helen
The principle of war
In search of Ulysses and Achilles
The offense to Artemis and the sacrifice of Iphigenia
The loss of Philoctetes
The first year of war
Chryseis and Briseis, the abandonment of Achilles and the revenge of Ulysses
The duel between Paris and Menelaus
Diomedes and Glaucus
The meeting of Hector and Andromache
The duel between Hector and Ajax Telamon
The duel between Patroclus and Serpedon and the death of Patroclus
The duel between Achilles and Hector
The funeral of Patroclus
The humiliation of Priam and the return of Hector's body
The Amazons of Penthesilea and the Ethiopians of Memnon
The death of Achilles
The madness of Ajax
The three conditions
Philocthetes, Neoptolemus and the death of Paris
The abduction of the Palladium
The horse and Sinon
The fall of Troy
Appendix A – "The Greek Gods"
Appendix B – "Genealogies"
Appendix C – "Greece and Troy"
The author
Bibliography
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In a book published two years ago, entitled Triangoli diabolici indagine su un archetipo del male (Diabolic triangles Investigation of an archetype of evil) , among others, is written:
“Jealousy is an omnipresent sentiment. Moreover, it is one of the main declinations of the human soul, which has been found since the dawn of time and is substantially detached from historical and social conditions. It is of no coincidence that classical mythology represented and typed it”1.
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So I returned joyfully to my years in high school, when, among students, they joked mocking the intricate and improbable events of this noisy acolyte, made up of characters and divinities who, between malice and passions, often touched the fascination of madness.
Yet, imprisoned in spite of ourselves between books and old benches, we would never have admitted then that, after all, those events had won us over. It might happen that, at the end of the lesson, an intense curiosity remained to know the implications of that story that we dealt with solely as a scholastic duty.
