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The Arrow of Apollo

Philip Womack
Chapters (52)
  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. About the Author
  4. Dedication
  5. By the Same Author
  6. Author’s Note
  7. Map
  8. Domus Libris
  9. House of the Wolf
  10. The House of the Wolf
  11. One
  12. Two
  13. Three
  14. Four
  15. Five
  16. Six
  17. Seven
  18. Eight
  19. Nine
  20. Ten
  21. Eleven
  22. Twelve
  23. Thirteen
  24. Fourteen
  25. Fifteen
  26. Sixteen
  27. Seventeen
  28. Eighteen
  29. Nineteen
  30. Twenty
  31. Twenty-One
  32. Twenty-Two
  33. Twenty-Three
  34. Twenty-Four
  35. Twenty-Five
  36. Twenty-Six
  37. Twenty-Seven
  38. Twenty-Eight
  39. Twenty-Nine
  40. Thirty
  41. Thirty-One
  42. Thirty-Two
  43. Thirty-Three
  44. Thirty-Four
  45. Thirty-Five
  46. Thirty-Six
  47. Thirty-Seven
  48. Thirty-Eight
  49. Timeline of the Trojan Cycle
  50. Further Reading
  51. Acknowledgements
  52. Supporters

Cover

cover

Title

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About the Author

Philip Womack is the author of six critically acclaimed books for children, including The Broken King and The Double Axe. He was born in Chichester and was educated at Lancing and Oriel College, Oxford, where he read Classics and English. He contributes to many newspapers and magazines, including the Times Literary Supplement, Literary Review, the Financial Times and Tatler.

Dedication

This book is dedicated to my godchildren:

Max Christie, Artemis Elliot and Fergus Hollingshead

By the Same Author

By the Same Author

The Other Book

The Liberators

THE DARKENING PATH TRILOGY

The Broken King

The King’s Shadow

The King’s Revenge

The Double Axe

Author’s Note

This novel takes place in the long aftermath of the Trojan War, a great conflict in which the ancient royal city of Troy was defeated and burned to the ground by a coalition of Achaeans, led by the high king Agamemnon and his brother Menelaus. Aeneas, a Trojan prince, with a small band of followers, was one of the few to escape the city.

The fall of Troy echoes throughout literature and throughout history. Much has been written about the voyages and returns of the heroes. Aeneas, after many adventures in the Middle Sea, arrived in Italia and there built a new city, which would in time give rise to Rome.

Agamemnon was not so lucky. When he came back to his kingdom of Mykenai with a Trojan concubine, Cassandra, he was murdered by his wife Clytemnestra. His son Orestes later avenged his death.

Very little has been written about the next generation. They lived in a time when myth began to shade into history; when the gods were leaving the earth.

The Arrow of Apollo is set when the heroes of Troy have grown old. Their children must face new troubles, both from the ancient past and from the living present.

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Domus Libris

Edwardus Filius Aestatuli

Mathilda Andreius

Albertus Augustinus

Ariadne Caroussis de Chione

Erietta Caroussis de Chione

Theadora de Barenton-Fonte

Electra de Flumine

Elisabetta de Hereforda

Hugo de Laci

Artorius de Palude

Zelda Emilia De Prato Brunis Cippis

Elissa Equiso

Alexis Princeps Giedrus

Matilda Filia Gulielmi

Georgius Imprudens Sponsor

Ada Rae Filia Johannes

Dylanus Filius Maris Johannes

Inigo Filius Johannes

Mafalda Magna

Lucas Magnus

Tomassus Magnus

Lucia Nobililla

Susanna Nobililla

Isabella Pistor

Otto Rotator

Lyra Rufula Artifex

Hector Saxum Horridum

Lorcanus Ferocillus Saxum Horridum

Merlinus Saxum Horridum

Ophelia Saxum Horridum

Emmelina Scaevola

Henricus Superbus-Dispensator

Agnes Filia Tommasi

Hugo Xandrus

House of the Wolf

AENEAS leader of the defeated Trojans in the city of Lavinium, in Italia. Father of Silvius and Iulus.
LAVINIA wife of Aeneas, mother to Silvius and Brutus. A native Italian.
IULUS Aeneas’s eldest son, by his Trojan wife Creusa. Leads the colony town of Alba Longa.
SILVIUS second son of Aeneas, by Lavinia.
BRUTUS youngest son of Aeneas, by Lavinia.
ELISSA orphaned daughter of Anna Perenna, a princess who was sister to Dido, Queen of Carthage.