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Whom The Gods Would Destroy

Richard Powell

Ebook | Pages: 149 pages

Rating: 4.53 | 138 Users | 14 Reviews

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Original Title:	Whom the Gods Would Destroy
ISBN:	0340147245 (ISBN13: 9780340147245)
Edition Language:	English

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When I was 17 I can remember being home sick from school with the chickpox. My mom went to the local drug store to pick up a prescription for me so I asked her to find me a book to read. She came back and handed me Whom the Gods. "It has Greeks on the cover, so I figured you'd like it." She was right. Whom the Gods became my favorite book of all time in high school, and I still think it's great read. After finishing it I was so taken by the author Richard Powell's style that I began collecting all of his works. Most were out of print, but I haunted the local used bookstores until I found them. Probably his most famous work was The Philadelphian. It was turned into a movie called The Young Philadelphians starring Paul Newman. Like most movie versions, the book was 10x better. Always wished someone would pick up the rights to Whom the Gods and turn it into the movie. Would have been a much better story than the recent Brad Pitt movie Troy. Powell was a journalist and I believe a creative writing teacher. Whom the Gods was his last work, and undoubtedly his best. Anyone who enjoys ancient history, particularly the Trojan War epic cycle should check it out. Powell brings characters like Achilles, Helen, Odysseus and Hector to life in such a way as a 17 year old I remember being quite sad when I finally finished the book. I wanted it to go on forever.

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Title	:	Whom The Gods Would Destroy
Author	:	Richard Powell
Book Format	:	Ebook
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 149 pages
Published	:	Historical Fiction on Greece and Rome 238 books — 250 voters About the Trojan War 211 books — 198 voters
Categories	:	Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction. Historical Fantasy

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Ratings: 4.53 From 138 Users | 14 Reviews

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I loved this book when I was younger, coming upon it by accident one summer in a rental house. A flourish of the ancient and mysterious, with politics both sexual and class-based, and the wars men fight. It brought to life the characters of Greek mythology and the players in the Trojan War through the eyes of a young boy, destined for playing a part in large events. Too bad it is so hard to find now, and so expensive once you find it.

Ultimately, it was an enjoyable book on the events of the Iliad, seen from the viewpoint of a young boy who grows to be a man. Well written, interesting characters and themes. I enjoyed the characterization of Odysseus in particular, as well as Helios. I wasn't thrilled with Achilles, though I saw how it suited the story the author was telling. My main quibble with the book is that Helen is not portrayed with much depth or nuance at all. Connecting her to the goddess Gaia made sense and worked

As a child and teenager, I loved reading the myths and legends of other cultures, in particular the Greeks and Romans (though I also read a great deal about the Scandinavian deities). Powell's Whom The Gods Would Destroy was a resounding favorite of mine, and I must have read it a half dozen times during my teenage years. The Trojan War comes to life under Powell's pen, and the characters (about whom I had read much elsewhere, including in Homer's Iliad and Oddyssey) are masterfully brought to

Fantastic story. One of the themes in the book seemed to be that seemingly normal people turn into legends because observers see a fraction of the real story and fill in the details with what they want to see. My favorite thing about this book is that the author weaved mythological characters into a real story. It seems that he did his research to find out if these people were even real and how they became the legends that they are known today. I loved the characters and the way that they were

This novel was published in 1970, and I remember getting it out of the library at around that time. I remembered it as a different, irreverent take on the heroes of the Trojan War -- a scene that always stuck in my mind was one where Odysseus tells the heavily-armoured Achilles to "take that goddam bucket off your head!". Of course it is long out of print and sufficiently obscure not to appear in second-hand bookshops. But thanks to the Internet I was able to buy it from a bookseller in the US,

A coming of age story, meant to actually teach us something about humanity and its mistakes. Apart from that, the setting is as vivid today as it was when we read this in 9th grade. No book has made more real to me what it was like to live in antiquity. The everyday dangers, the religious background, the social parameters. Every time I reread this book I like it more.