Age of Bronze Volume 2: Sacrifice
by:
Eric Shanower (author)
While Trojan prince Paris returns to Troy with Helen, the Achaean fleet mistakenly attacks Mysia, then is scattered by a storm. High King Agamemnon gathers the army again, but for the fleet to sail, the gods require the life of Agamemnon's eldest daughter, Iphigenia.
While Trojan prince Paris returns to Troy with Helen, the Achaean fleet mistakenly attacks Mysia, then is scattered by a storm. High King Agamemnon gathers the army again, but for the fleet to sail, the gods require the life of Agamemnon's eldest daughter, Iphigenia.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781582403991 (1582403996)
Publish date: June 21st 2005
Publisher: Image Comics
Pages no: 225
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Classics,
Novels,
Cultural,
Historical Fiction,
Asian Literature,
Greece,
Sequential Art,
Graphic Novels,
Comics,
Comix,
Mythology,
Indonesian Literature
Series: Age of Bronze (#2)
Not much more to say here than I did in my review of volume 1, A Thousand Ships, except that his plot for this chapter closely follows Michael Kakogiannis's Iphigenia (which is not a bad thing, I liked that film).It's just...uninspiring.
In volume two of this series, you get a glimpse of some of Agamemnon and Menelaus' background, particularly the curse on their family that seems to require that they "consume" each other. The "consume" in one case - that of Tantalus, who killed his children, cooked them, and served them to the gods ...
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