Pen & Sword History

We call them ‘Olympians’ because they inhabit Mount Olympus in northern Greece. Like the current members of the House of Windsor, they constitute a dynasty.

Achilles, the greatest warrior fighting on the Greek side in the Trojan War. Achilles’ father, Peleus, was mortal and his mother, Thetis, was a sea nymph.

Aeneas, the founder of the Roman race. His father was a mortal called Anchises and his mother was Aphrodite.

Fate operates independently of the gods. It’s an objective entity without any personality and, seemingly, without any agenda. It certainly acts without explanation.

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”. It was at a children’s home – for Jewish children – on the Channel coast, where I encountered the notion of the Second World War for the first time

When I was 9 I had to cross half of Europe on my own to be with yo

German: My name is Jean-Jacques

I still see myself, the only boy in the harem

” people who couldn’t stand you being free and running your life, and especially those who took you away from me. Thirty-five years later I still wonder if, secretly, y