A thousand ships haynes5/25/2023 ![]() Both novels deconstruct Greek fables and force us to look at them with modern eyes. ![]() Which is why I liked Circe and A Thousand Ships so much. Like Circe, this is another book where the man of twists comes off badly. Supposedly on his way home, he sure gets kidnapped by beautiful women a lot. My favorite part was Penelope musing as she hears increasingly fantastical tales about her long-missing husband, Odysseus, and his wanderings through the known world after the fall of Troy. Clytemnestra slowly plotting revenge against her husband. Hecuba, enslaved, with her city destroyed. The goddesses Hera, Aphrodite and Athena who forced Paris to make a fateful judgement. In this novel, the muse Calliope sings, but of the women. If not, there’s a guide at the beginning of the book to the characters. For this book, it helps to know a bit about the Odyssey and the Iliad. I love contemporary takes on Greek mythology. ![]() ![]() This is a novel about the Trojan War, but from the women involved, from meddling goddesses to ordinary mortals, all caught up in a civilization-ending cataclysm. If you liked Circe by Madeline Miller, then you’ll enjoy A Thousand Ships by Natalie Haynes. ![]()
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