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Man seduces another's wife then kidnaps her. The husband and his brother get a gang together to steal her back and take revenge. The woman regrets being seduced and wants to escape whilst the man's entourage resent the position they have been placed in. Yet the battle lines have been drawn and there is no giong back... Not the plot of the latest Hollywood thriller, but the basis of The Iliad - the Greek classic that details the war between the Greeks and the Trojans after the kidnapping of Helen of Sparta. THE ILIAD is thought to have been composed in the second half of the eight century BC. Stephen Mitchell is a bestselling translator. His translation of Gilgamesh sold over 800,000 copies in the States. He also received great acclaim for his translations of the Bhagavad Gita, The Taoof Ching, Rilke's Sonnets to Orpheus, and The Book of Job. He was educated at Amherst College, the Sorbonne and Yale University.