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• Ithaca

  North, Claire

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  Seventeen years ago, King Odysseus sailed to war with Troy, taking with him every man of fighting age from the island of Ithaca. None of them has returned, and the women of Ithaca have been left behind to run the kingdom. Penelope was barely into…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Song of Achilles

  Miller, Madeline

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  Banished from his father's kingdom, 10-year-old prince Patroclus finds sanctuary in Phthia as a foster child of King Peleus and becomes friends with Peleus' demigod son, Achilles. The two boys become devoted to each other, but it's only a matter of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• No Friend to This House

  a Novel

  Haynes, Natalie,

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  Jason and his Argonauts set sail to find the Golden Fleece. The journey is filled with danger for him and everyone he meets. But if he ever reaches the distant land he seeks, he faces almost certain death. Medea--priestess, witch, and daughter of a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Circe

  a Novel

  Miller, Madeline

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  In the house of Helios, god of the sun and mightiest of the Titans, a daughter is born. But Circe is a strange child--neither powerful like her father nor viciously alluring like her mother. Turning to the world of mortals for companionship, she…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Thousand Ships

  a Novel

  Haynes, Natalie

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  This was never the story of one woman, or two. It was the story of them all... In the middle of the night, a woman wakes to find her beloved city engulfed in flames. Ten seemingly endless years of conflict between the Greeks and the Trojans are…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Aphrodite

  a Novel

  Rogerson, Phoenicia,

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  Aphrodite saw the gods on Olympus and wanted in. Problem is, she’s not a goddess—just a lowly cave-dweller meant to weave Fate’s threads. But she’s never followed rules. Through lies and clever deceptions, she convinces everyone she’s the goddess of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Clytemnestra's Bind

  Wilson, Susan C.,

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  Queen Clytemnestra's world shatters when Agamemnon, a rival to the throne of Mycenae, storms her palace, destroys her family and claims not only the throne but Clytemnestra herself. Tormented by her loss, she vows to do all she can to protect the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• No Season but the Summer

  Leyser, Matilda,

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  Persephone spends six months of the year under the ground with her husband, king of the dead, and six months on earth with her mother, goddess of the harvest. It has been this way for nine thousand years, since the deal was struck. But when she…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Horses of Fire

  a Novel of Troy

  Rhine, A. D.,

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  Andromache, a warrior queen; Rhea, a horse-whisperer; Helen, a beautiful woman and the victim of abuse; and Cassandra, a prophetess, fight for their lives as their stories intertwine in the weeks leading up to the battle of Troy.

• The Children of Jocasta

  a Novel

  Haynes, Natalie,

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  This novel is based on Oedipus Tyrannus and Antigone, two of Classical Greece’s most compelling tragedies. Told in intersecting narratives, this feminist reimagining of Sophocles’ classic plays brings life and voice to the women who were too often…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Blood of Hercules

  Mas, Jasmine

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  I’m just a girl. And it turns out, I’m Hercules. In a Titan-infested world ruled by god-like Spartans, I’m a shy foster child trying to excel in school. Then my blood test reveals I’m a Spartan, part of the powerful elite. Forced to attend the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Silence of the Girls

  Barker, Pat, 1943-

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  There was a woman at the heart of the Trojan War whose voice has been silent - until now. Discover the greatest Greek myth of all - retold by the witness that history forgot. Reimagines The Iliad from the perspectives of the captured women living in…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Wrath Goddess Sing

  a Novel

  Deane, Maya, 1985-

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  Achilles has fled her home and her vicious Myrmidon clan to live as a woman with the kallai, the transgender priestesses of Great Mother Aphrodite. When Odysseus comes to recruit the "prince" Achilles for a war against the Hittites, she prepares to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Hymn to Dionysus

  a Novel

  Pulley, Natasha,

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  Raised in a Greek legion, Phaidros has been taught to fight for the homeland he’s never seen and to follow his commander’s orders at all costs. But when he rescues a baby from a fire at Thebes’s palace, his commander’s orders cease to make sense:…Read moreRead more of this annotation