What is the main setting in the novel, A Thousand Ships?

The Trojan shore is where most of the events of the novel occur. It is here where the Greeks are camped and where they make war against the Trojans. It is also where the surviving Trojan women huddle together once the conflict is over and they have been defeated. Here they learn of the death of Polydorus, and it is here that Talthybius takes Astyanax away to be killed. Here they hold onto each other before they are taken back to Greece, in Polyxena’s case, made a human sacrifice. The Trojan Shore is a liminal space, on the boundary between land and sea; the Trojan world and the Greek; life and death. This gives this setting a fundamental instability that catalyses the terrible events that happen here.