097 - Doctor Who - The Myth Makers

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Long, long ago on the great plains of Asia Minor, two mighty

armies faced each other in mortal combat. The armies were

the Greeks and the Trojans and the prize they were fighting

for was Helen, the most beautiful woman in the world.

To the Greeks it seemed that the city of Troy was

impregnable and only a miracle could bring them success.

And then help comes to them in a most unexpected way as a

strange blue box materialises close to their camp, bringing

with it the Doctor, Steven and Vicki, who soon find

themselves caught up in the irreversible tide of history and

legend...

ISBN 0 426 20170 1

DOCTOR WHO

THE MYTH-MAKERS

Based on the BBC television serial by Donald Cotton by

arrangement with the British Broadcasting Corporation

DONALD COTTON

Number 97

in the

Doctor Who Library

published by

The Paperback Division of

W. H. Allen & Co. PLC

A Target Book

Published in 1985

by the Paperback Division of W. H. Allen & Co. PLC

44 Hill Street, London W1X 8LB

First published in Great Britain by

W.H. Allen and Co. PLC in 1985

Corporation 1965, 1985

Printed and bound in Great Britain by

Anchor Brendon Ltd, Tiptree, Essex

The BBC producer of The Myth Makers was John Wiles

the director was Micheal Leeston-Smith

ISBN 0 426 20170 1

This book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way

of trade or otherwise, be lent, re-sold, hired out or otherwise

circulated without the publisher’s prior consent in any form of

binding or cover other than that in which it is published and

without a similar condition including this condition being

imposed on the subsequent purchaser.

To Humphrey Searle,

who wrote the music

CONTENTS

1 Homer Remembers

2 Zeus Ex Machina

3 Hector Forgets

4 Enter Odysseus

5 Exit the Doctor

6 A Rather High Tea

7 Agamemnon Arbitrates

8 An Execution is Arranged

9 Temple Fugit

10 The Doctor Draws a Graph

11 Paris Draws the Line

12 Small Prophet, Quick Return

13 War Games Compulsory

14 Single Combat

15 Speech! Speech!

16 The Trojans at Home

17 Cassandra Claims a Kill

18 The Ultimate Weapon

19 A Council of War

20 Paris Stands on Ceremony

21 Dungeon Party

22 Hull Low, Young Lovers

23 A Victory Celebration

24 Doctor in the Horse

25 A Little Touch of Hubris

26 Abandon Ship!

27 Armageddon and After

Epilogue

Homer Remembers

Look over here; here, under the olive-trees – that’s right, by the

pile of broken stones and the cracked statues of old gods. What

do you see?

Why, nothing but an old man, sitting in the Autumn

sunshine; and dreaming; and remembering. That is what old

men do, having nothing better to occupy their time... and since

that is what I have become, that is why I do it.

I heard your footsteps when you first entered the grove; so

sit down, whoever you are and have a slice of goat’s cheese with

me. There – it’s rather good, you’ll find; I eat very little else

these days. Teeth gone, of course...

You think it’s sad to be old? Nonsense – it’s a triumph! An

unexpected one, at that; because, I tell you, I never thought I’d

make it past thirty! Men do not frequently survive to senility in

these dangerous times. But then, being blind, I suppose I can

hardly be considered much of a threat to anyone; so somehow I

have been allowed to live... although probably more by

negligence than by charity, or a proper concern for the elderly.

And I am grateful; for I have a tale or two still to tell, and a

song or two to compose and throw to posterity... before I pass

Acheron, and meet my dead friends in the shadows of the nether

world.

I am, you see, a myth maker; and my name is Homer. I

don’t know if that will mean anything to you. But it is a name

once well considered in poetic circles. No matter... no reputation

lasts forever.

But that is why I sit here, in the stubble of the empty fields,

and lean against the rubble of the fallen city which once was

Troy; while the scavengers flap in the ruins, and the lizards run

across my bare feet – at least, I hope they’re lizards! If they are

scorpions, perhaps you would be so kind? Thank you! And I

remember the beginning of it all, long ago when I was young.

Listen...

I was a wanderer then, as I am now – and so thoroughly

undistinguished in appearance that I could pass unnoticed when

men of greater consequence would, at the very least, be asked to

give an account of themselves. But I was not blind in those days;

and though I could do little to influence, I could at least observe

the course of events; and to some extent – not being a complete

fool – interpret them.

And what events they were! Troy – this mound of masonry

behind us – was then the greatest city in the world. Although I

must admit, that wasn’t too difficult a trick, because the world

then was not as it is known to be now.

A rather small flat disc, it was considered to be; and the

latest geographical thinking was that it balanced rather

precariously on the back of an elephant, which, for some reason,

was standing on a tortoise! All nonsense, of course; we know now

that the disc is very much larger and floats on some kind of

metaphysical river; although I must say, I don’t quite follow the

argument myself.

At all events, it was bounded to the East by the Ural

Mountains, where the barbarians lived; and to the West, just

beyond the Pillars of Hercules, it fell away to night and old

chaos. And what happened to the North and South we didn’t

like to enquire. All we were absolutely sure of was that the

available space was a bit on the cramped side.

And the Trojans appeared to have rather more than their

fair share of it. In fact, they sat four-square on most of Asia

Minor; and that, as I need hardly remind you, meant that they

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