The ghost of Achilles / Luke Strongman.

Includes index.

A "perpetual sunrise" : the Alexandrian library -- "Let Rome in Tiber melt" : William Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra -- "Then, oh! Unbar this churlish gate" : the crusades -- "And wrote my will across the sky in stars" : T.E. Lawrence's Seven pillars of wisdom -- " ... a talking bird, a singing tree, and some golden water ..." : the Arabian nights -- "Every life was a spark" : Derek Walcott's Omeros -- "Our faithful guide through all the vicissitudes of climates" : Polynesian navigation -- "A brutal innocence" : Gauguin and primitivism -- "Meet heaven and earth, and here let all things end!" : Christopher Marlowe's Tamburlaine -- "A dream within a dream" : Salman Rushdie's Midnight's children and the Satanic verses -- The "history house" : Arundhati Roy's the God of small things -- A "tear on the cheek of time" : the Taj Mahal at Agra -- Epilogue : the citadel.

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