Bearing the Body of Hector Home

by Robert Cooperman

Bearing the Body of Hector Home is the story of how King Priam of Troy fetched his son's corpse from the grief-striken, vengeance-mad Achilles, the subsequent preparations for and completion of Hector's funeral rites. The collection consists of a series of dramatic monologues from the points of view of Greek and Trojan warriors and also the citizens of Troy, that besieged, doomed city. Poems show us the grieving of King Priam and Queen Hecuba,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1952593352
• ISBN13: 9781952593352
• Release Date: January 2023
• Publisher: Futurecycle Press
• Length: 82 Pages
• Weight: 0.27 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"