Their masts were hung with tokens of victory and their holds were full of Trojan gold and wine. But those who unfurled their sails, latched their oars over the oar-pins and set the tillers, were cheerful. There were many faces missing, many oars lacked a rower after ten years of war. Men whose ships had rolled idly over a thousand tides in the bay of Troy mustered by the water’s edge in groups. Then suddenly it was over in a flash of fire, a splash of blood and a trampling of horses. The Odyssey Retold by Geraldine McCaughreanĬHAPTER 1 - YEARNING FOR HOME The war lasted so very, very long.
