The Spoils of Troy

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Lindsay Clarke. The Spoils of Troy

THE SPOILS OF TROY. Lindsay Clarke

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Dedication

Map

The Justice of the Gods

The Fall

A Visitor To Ithaca

The Division of the Spoils

The Strength of Poseidon

An Audience with the Queen

The Last of Troy

The Ghosts of Mycenae

The Bitch’s Tomb

Cassandra

Death in the Lion House

Anxiety on Ithaca

Glossary of Characters

Acknowledgements

Also by Lindsay Clarke

About the Publisher

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For Phoebe Clare

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Andromache’s eyeballs swivelled in panic as though at sudden loss. Then memory seared through her. Again, as though the scene were being played out before her for the first time, she saw Neoptolemus dragging Astyanax by the lobe of his ear across the upper room of her house. Again she saw the deft sweep with which the young warrior lifted her child above the parapet of the balcony. Again she released a protracted scream of refusal and denial, and again it was in vain. Neoptolemus opened his hands and Astyanax vanished, leaving only a brief, truncated cry on the night air.

Unable to stop herself, Andromache had run to the balcony and gazed down where the small body of her son lay twisted on the stones twenty feet below. A pool of blood oozed from his head like oil. In that moment she would have thrown herself from the parapet after him if Neoptolemus had not grabbed her by the arm and pulled her away. So she had stood with that gilded youth bending an arm at her back, screaming and screaming at the night.

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