While the beautiful Helen of Troy watches, Achilles and his cousin Ajax battle the Trojan prince Hektor and his ally, King Sarpedon of Lykia. Meanwhile, Pandarus schemes to protect himself by using his niece Cressida to win the heart of Troilus. Both Cressida and Troilus are faced with important decisions.
High King Agamemmnon is determined to conquer Troy and rescue his brother's wife, Helen, but first his army must pass the island of Tenedos. Following the battle on the island, Philoktetes is bitten by a poisonous snake and Odysseus finds a solution to the problem.
Returning home from a long, brutal campaign against the Armenian army, the Hittite soldier Lukka finds the once magnificent Hatti empire in chaos, its capital city Hattusa engulfed in fire and terrorized by marauding gangs. His wife and young sons have been taken by slave traders.
Paris, prince of Troy, falls in love with Helen, the queen of Sparta, and convinces her to follow him away from her husband, sparking an epic war, and pitting Troy against Achilles, the greatest warrior in all the world.
When thirteen-year-old Myrina of the Mazagardi tribe joins the Moon Riders, a revered band of warrior women, she becomes caught up in the life of the Trojan princess Cassandra and the epic, ten-year Trojan War.
Presents William Shakespeare's tragicomedy of love and betrayal during the siege of Troy, and includes explanatory notes, an introduction, and an essay on Shakespeare's theatrical world.
