Black ships before Troy

Homer's epic poems, The Illiad and The Odyssey, are some of the greatest adventure stories of all time. Rosemary Sutcliff brilliantly retells such extraordinary stories as those of those Trojan horse, of Aphrodite and the golden apple, and of the fearsome warrior women - the Amazons. You'll also want to read Sutcliff's The Wanderings of Odysseus and Geraldine McCaughrean's retelling of The Odyssey.