On an Earth profoundly changed since the departure of the Post-Humans centuries earlier, the great events on the bloody plains of Ilium serve as mere entertainment.
and ultimately destroy Aphrodite’s sister and rival, the goddess Pallas Athena. With the help of fortieth-century technology, Hockenberry is to infiltrate Olympos, spy on its divine inhabitants.
But the muse he serves has a new assignment for the wary scholic, one dictated by Aphrodite herself. It is Hockenberry’s duty to observe and report on the Trojan War’s progress to the so-called deities who saw fit to return him from the dead. Thomas Hockenberry, former twenty-first-century professor and Iliad scholar, watches as well. Synopsis: From the multiple award-winning author of the Hyperion Cantos – one of the most acclaimed and popular series in contemporary science fiction – comes a huge and powerful epic of high-tech gods, human heroes, total war, and the extraordinary transcendence of ordinary beings.įrom the towering heights of Olympos Mons on Mars, the mighty Zeus and his immortal family of gods, goddesses, and demigods look down upon a momentous battle, observing – and often influencing – the legendary exploits of Paris, Achilles, Hector, Odysseus, and the clashing armies of Greece and Troy. This is where the Iliad begins, and it should be the focus of all my energies and professional skills, but the truth is that I don’t really give a shit. Tonight is the assembly at Agamemnon’s tent and the confrontation between Agamemnon and Achilles.
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