The Return from Troy

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Lindsay Clarke. The Return from Troy

THE RETURN FROM TROY. Lindsay Clarke

Copyright

Dedication

Map

The Pledge Redeemed

The World Turned Upside Down

Zarzis

The Young Lions

Nobodysseus

The Wind-callers

A Game of Shadows

Telemachus

The Mysteries

Menelaus

The Homecoming

The Winnowing Fan

Glossary of Characters

Acknowledgements

Also by Lindsay Clarke

About the Publisher

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For Phoebe Clare

Cover

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Yet Amphinomus had not come to the island only to report on events in Argos. It was also his intention to prepare Penelope as best he could for the possibility that her husband might never return. Things he had heard in Corinth left him in no doubt that the Aegean Sea had been hit by a disastrous storm. The coast of Euboea had seen many shipwrecks. Hundreds of men had drowned. As was shown by the case of Diomedes, vessels blown eastwards by the storm had fared little better, and since he had got back, no other survivors had appeared. Amphinomus feared that these unhappy facts offered no good omens for the safe and speedy return of Lord Odysseus.

‘Yet Nestor’s ships all seem to have survived the voyage,’ Penelope countered. ‘And their passage required them to double Cape Malea where the waters can be more treacherous than Euboean kings and faithless wives.’

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