Ancient Greece
Horses of Fire: A Novel of Troy
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Horses of Fire is the first collaborative adult novel of two young adult authors, Ashlee Cowles and Danielle Stinson, writing as A. D. ...Read Review
In the Shadow of the Bull (An Ancient Crete Mystery, 1)
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Crete, 1450 BCE. After her beloved sister, Arge, dies at the beginning of a wedding ceremony, Martis is visited by Arge’s shade. Her ...Read Review
Lies We Sing to the Sea
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This is the story of Melantho and Leto and their quest to end the annual ritual hanging of twelve maidens of Ithaca, and ...Read Review
Antigone
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Antigone offers modern readers a reimagining of the well-known tale from Greek mythology in which a young woman knowingly breaks the law of ...Read Review
Clytemnestra
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“Survival, strength and courage are your duties,” the King of Sparta tells the girls (including his daughters) training to wrestle just like their ...Read Review
Clytemnestra’s Bind (The House of Atreus)
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Clytemnestra’s Bind is, we are told, the first in a projected trilogy featuring the famous dispute between the Mycenaeans and the Trojans. ...Read Review
Atalanta
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Atalanta sets out the tale of the only female Argonaut, starting with the abandoned baby raised by bears, and growing up in the ...Read Review
Wind from the Hospitable Sea (Fleeing Carthage)
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Greece, 562 BC. When wealthy foreigners come to Corinth for the Great Isthmian Games, 11-year-old Diossos tries to convince visitors to stay at his ...Read Review
The Heroines (UK) / Phaedra (US)
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In this retelling of Greek myths, Phaedra is the daughter of King Minos on the civilised island of Crete, where they are visited ...Read Review
The Shadow of Perseus
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The legend exalting the Greek hero, Perseus, is stripped away through the perspectives of three women in The Shadow of Perseus by Claire ...Read Review