The story unfolds through from seventeen different narrators, shifting sympathies between the Greeks and Trojans. Key Narrative Threads

In ( The Song of Troy ), Colleen McCullough strips away the divine interference of the gods to tell the Trojan War as a gritty, human-driven historical epic.

Agamemnon , the ambitious King of Kings, sacrifices his own daughter to launch a fleet of a thousand ships. He is joined by the subtle and brilliant Odysseus , who eventually devises the Trojan Horse.

The war begins when the beautiful but self-indulgent Helen deserts her husband, King Menelaus of Sparta, for the equally reckless Trojan prince Paris .

The decade-long siege concludes with the brutal destruction of Troy, a tragedy that McCullough portrays with a contemporary sense of urgency and psychological depth. Digital Availability (ePub)

You can find the ePub version of this novel on major platforms: Colleen McCullough: “The Song of Troy”