Trojan Trilogy Series by Byrne Fone

Achilles Loves Patrolcus, but Antilochus loves Achilles.They are all fighting to capture Troy in this exciting gay novel set during the Trojan War. Achilles: A Love Story is the first modern novel (2010) to to re-imagine the story of Achilles and Patroclus as what ancient readers knew it to be: not only a tale of battles and exemplary heroism, but the love story of Achilles, unrivalled hero and the most beautiful man in the world, and the handsome and heroic Patroclus... moreAchilles Loves Patrolcus, but Antilochus loves Achilles.They are all fighting to capture Troy in this exciting gay novel set during the Trojan War. Achilles: A Love Story is the first modern novel (2010) to to re-imagine the story of Achilles and Patroclus as what ancient readers knew it to be: not only a tale of battles and exemplary heroism, but the love story of Achilles, unrivalled hero and the most beautiful man in the world, and the handsome and heroic Patroclus. Their passionate and tragic tale is one of the greatest and earliest gay love stories ever told. But in the "Iliad" Homer also hints at another love story: that of the handsome Prince Antilochus who also loves for Achilles. "Achilles: A Love Story," a gay novel of the Trojan War, movingly creates their erotic and tragic passion as it plays out against the legendary battles of the Trojan war. less

By the author of Achilles: A Love Story When men make war, it is women who suffer. Trojan Women is a gripping re-imaging of one of the greatest stories in western literature, the epic clash of cultures we call the Trojan War. As Homer tells it in the Iliad, men fight, suffer, and die. There men tell the tale. But the Trojan women, whose lives are at the center of Homer's tale and who are the prizes to be won, are silent. Trojan Women gives these women a voice... moreBy the author of Achilles: A Love Story When men make war, it is women who suffer. Trojan Women is a gripping re-imaging of one of the greatest stories in western literature, the epic clash of cultures we call the Trojan War. As Homer tells it in the Iliad, men fight, suffer, and die. There men tell the tale. But the Trojan women, whose lives are at the center of Homer's tale and who are the prizes to be won, are silent. Trojan Women gives these women a voice. In this moving, carefully researched, and elegantly written historical novel, six legendary women tell the story: Chryseis, captured and taken as a slave to the bed of Agamemnon, bravely and resourcefully confronts the horrors of war and the brutality of men. Captured with her and saved from death by her, Briseis stands side by side with Chryseis when death threatens them. Slaves and playthings of the Greeks, the two women are at the moral and emotional center of the drama and tell a story that even Homer never knew. From within the besiged city of Troy, Queen Hecabe, and her daughters Andromache and Kassandra, look from the walls at the vast Greek army camped below, and bravely face the terrors that confront them: for Hecabe the loss of a crown and kingdom, for Andromache the loss of husband and child, for Kassandra the loss of sanity itself. Once desired and now despised, Helen, the prize over whom Greeks and Trojans fight, has lost eveything and now can only wait to learn if she will live or die. Trojan Women renews for our times an epic story, yet one also intimate and passionate, that remains, after two thousand years, perhaps the greatest story ever told. Read Byrne Fone's latest novel: American Revolution. less

By the author of Achilles: A Love Story and American Revolution: A Gay Novel WAR STORIES: THE TROJAN TRILOGY re-imagines the Trojan War through the eyes of characters who in Home's Iliad are seen but rarely heard:: Chryses the priest of Apollo whose brief appearance sets the entire story of the Iliad in motion, his daughter Chryseis, and Briseis, both Trojan women captured by Greeks, Prince Antilochus, who comes to Troy to seek the love of the unobtainable Achiles, the Greek's greatest hero... moreBy the author of Achilles: A Love Story and American Revolution: A Gay Novel WAR STORIES: THE TROJAN TRILOGY re-imagines the Trojan War through the eyes of characters who in Home's Iliad are seen but rarely heard:: Chryses the priest of Apollo whose brief appearance sets the entire story of the Iliad in motion, his daughter Chryseis, and Briseis, both Trojan women captured by Greeks, Prince Antilochus, who comes to Troy to seek the love of the unobtainable Achiles, the Greek's greatest hero. And the women of Troy: Hecabe, Queen of Troy, Andromache, wife of the doomed Hector, the mad Cassandra whose prophecies of Troy's fall all ignore, and Helen of Troy herself, over whose possession the great war is fought. WAR STORIES movingly and excitingly recreates the last days of the war, within the framework of these passionate and personal war stories that add an intimate dimension to Homer's epic tale. AUTHOR'S NOTE WAR STORIES includes the modified texts of the other two books in the series: ACHILLES: A LOVE STORY and TROJAN WOMEN, and additional text to create WAR STORIES itself. ACHILLES: A LOVE STORY is a gay re-imagining of the Trojan war (and the first modern novel to do so). TROJAN WOMEN tells the story of Chryses, Helen, Cassandra, and the other Trojan women whose lives are so tragically affected by a war fought by men. For those who might want a more focussed and personal narrative of the Trojan War, I have excerpted from WAR STORIES these other two books as separate publications, though they are much changed from their narrative role in WAR STORIES. Eagle-eyed textual comparatists who have had the patience to read all three books might find language in one book that recalls another. This is by design, for it seemed to me to be an interesting experiment to retell the same story, the one that Homer gave me, from a different viewpoint, but each book connected by echoes of another. Yet all have been so often re-written and revised that ACHILLES: A LOVE STORY and TROJAN WOMEN have ended up being quite different as individual books than what they were when they began as part of another. less