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Enheartening Thetis, Hephaistos replied, "Have courage, my Lady, please trust me!" Good gear I can make, but to hide him from death? Now, that is another matter...I only wish I could help him with that, as I can with the making of arms, for I am an expert--no eyes have beheld such gear as I shall provide him."As he prepares for battle, Achilles is not blazing with heroic fervor. He is burning with unrestrainable grief, mourning for his beloved Patroklos, trusted chariot driver, brother in arms, his friend with whom he shares everything, especially his heart. Lost to the heat of battle, laid lo at the hand of Hektor, slain of life and stripped of armor, his beloved is lost to the ravages of war. Filled with passionate hatred of war, Achilles swears he will right the whole Trojan army single-handedly until he takes revenge and brings the Trojan War to its epic end.Donning his new armor, Achilles shines from head to toe in blazing bronze, his body encompassed in a halo of flames. Homer brings it all together, right here. Life and death, revenge and hate, righteousness and evil, glory and fate. The voices of the muses strain to the point of breaking as their song empowers Achilles with supernatural fire.Recently featuring her Shield of Achilles on the cover of Gods, Heroes, and Monsters by Carolina Lopez-Ruiz (2nd ed, Oxford University Press), Vail's extraordinary reconstruction has garnered great acclaim from top scholars of the Classics.

After witnessing the horrifying murder of her friend Tom Haley, Mallory Lowe, a cautious university mathematics professor, must emerge from her cocoon to become the gutsy and unpredictable woman she's always dreamed of being. Running on the guilt of a past family tragedy that she blames on herself, Mallory is determined to find Tom's now-missing daughter. Following the clues in a 300-year-old equation left by Tom, Mallory's search propels her into the tangled threads of a ruthless corporate entity known as Möbius, bent on controlling the world's most precious resource: fresh water. Along the way, Mallory is joined by CIA agent Lane McKenzie, who used Tom Haley as an operative to infiltrate Möbius and expose their corruption of government officials. Now he's using Mallory to do the same, but without her knowledge. Sinking deeper into a pit of questionable ethics, he shadows her as she is propelled along a perilous journey from the southwest United States through the breathtaking landscape of Switzerland and into the inner workings of a massive hydroelectric dam in Turkey. Caught between Möbius' inner circle and a renegade associate, Mallory solves the riddle of the centuries old mathematics equation-only to discover something more ominous and deadly in the process. Mallory must reignite her mathematical mind and again put her life at risk if she hopes to stop Möbius from unleashing this looming threat.