By Ed DeHoratius
Illustrated by Brian Delandro Hardison

Description

You are Achilles, the greatest hero Greece has ever known. You fight with honor and pride. Your skills at arms are unmatched. You have never experienced defeat. But on the battlefields of Troy you have a decision to make: stay true to your code of honor and not fight, or come to the aid of your countrymen and win fame and glory, becoming an even greater legend.

In The Wrath of Achilles, you become Achilles, hero of all of Greece. You confront the same choices he faced in the pages of Homer’s Iliad, but with a twist: you are in control of your destiny. You can choose a different path as you follow you fate. Thirteen different endings await you. Only one path leads to glory. Twelve lead to death, defeat, and shame.

Young people ages 8 and up will learn the Iliad from the inside out with dramatic text by Ed DeHoratius, dynamically illustrated by award-winning comic book artist Brian Delandro Hardison.

Special Features

• Sixteen different endings to choose from
  
• Five black-and-white illustrations
  
• Learn Homer’s classic story, the Iliad, in prose that reads like a script to an action movie

Interview with author Ed DeHoratius.

Comments and Reviews

The Wrath of Achilles was a very fun and adventurous book that gave me a lot of information about Achilles and the Trojan war. It also allowed me to compare what I would choose to do with Achilles’ choices that led him to glory.

I learned so much more about the Iliad and Achilles than I learned in a whole year of studying Greece in fourth grade.

It also made me think about why Achilles’ choices were successful, as opposed to choices that I thought were the right thing to do. It also gave me more information on the daily life of people in ancient Greece.

Overall, I think this is a superb book to use in school.

Emily Considine is a Half Moon Bay resident and a fifth-grader at The Nueva School in Hillsborough. She reviewed The Wrath of Achilles by Ed DeHoratius.

– Emily Considine
Half Moon Bay Review, September 23, 2009
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