Ὁ ἐπὶ Τροίᾱν Πόλεμος (HO EPI TROIAN POLEMOS)

<p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>At a celebration on Mount Olympus a golden apple marked for the most beautiful appears without warning-setting off a bitter rivalry among Hera Athena and Aphrodite. What begins as a divine dispute soon spills into the human world drawing Paris Helen Menelaus Agamemnon Hector and Achilles into the legendary ten-year war between Greece and Troy.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Adapted and translated into Ancient Greek by Seumas Macdonald-one of the world's leading teachers of communicative and comprehensible Ancient Greek-this story is based on </span><em style=color: rgba(77 59 198 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Bellum Troianum: A Latin Novella</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)> (Storybase Books 2021) by Brian Gronewoller. Designed for novice and intermediate readers it offers a clear and engaging introduction to the epic traditions of Homer and Vergil.</span></p><p></p><p>Level: F</p><p>ERF Scale: Elementary Mid</p><p>Total Words: 5067</p><p>Word Forms: 943</p><p>Headwords: 430</p><p></p><p>Storybase Books publishes novellas to help beginners learn Latin and Greek by reading. Our novellas use limited vocabulary to tell engaging stories that are accessible to novice- and intermediate-level readers. Meanings for many words are provided in footnotes and a full index of all words word forms and phrases is included in each novella. Readers can thus read each novella on their own with others or with a class.</p>