Author: (Retold by Pauline Francis)

Publisher: Evans

Format: Paperback

Pages: 48

Suitable: Upper Primary

The 'Fast Track Classics' series presents retold, shortened versions of classic novels that are suitable for children working at Upper Primary levels. These stories are shortened versions of the classic novels which lose none of the strength and flavour of the original.

In "The Iliad", Paris, a Trojan prince, having won Helen as his prize for judging a beauty contest between the goddesses Hera, Athena and Aphrodite, abducted her from her Greek husband Menelaus and transported her to Troy. The Greeks, enraged by this audacity and devastated by the loss of the most beautiful woman in the world, set sail to Troy and begin the long siege of the city...