The Listening Zone

On the plain between the Greek fleet and the Trojan walls, Heroes clash in a decade of epic contests.

Homer's classical poem "Illiad", recomposed as prose for Children. The events of the story occur over several weeks in the 10th and final year of the war.

Contents:

• Sulky Achilles
• Menelaus and Paris
• General Agamemnon
• The Deeds of Diomed
• Diomed and Glaucus become Friends
• Hector and Andromache
• The Fatal Gifts
• The Thunder-Storm
• Old Nestor's Advice
• The Night Adventure of Ulysses and Diomed
• The Battle goes against the Greeks
• The Conflict at the Wall
• The Death of Patroclus
• The Fight around the Body of Patroclus
• Achilles and his New Armor
• The Reconciliation of Achilles and Agamemnon
• The Exploits of Achilles
• The Death of Hector
• The Funeral Rites of Patroclus
• Hector's Body ransomed and buried
• The End of the Siege