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'A beautifully woven tale with brilliant, confident writing, [Heywood] has illuminated the stories of ladies too often relegated to the role of villain or damsel' CLAIRE M ANDREWS The King of Tyre is dead, his final words anointing his clever and strong-willed daughter, Elissa, as the new queen...

Helena und Klytämnestra sind durch ihre Schönheit und ihren Stand nichts als Überfluss gewohnt, ganz Griechenland liegt ihnen zu Füßen: Sie sind die Prinzessinnen von Sparta. Doch dieses Privileg hat seinen Preis. Noch als Mädchen werden die Schwestern getrennt und verheiratet—mit dem mächtigen Agamemnon und seinem Bruder Menelaos von Troja. Als Königinnen wird von ihnen nur zweierlei erwartet: die Geburt eines Erben und die Verkörperung der sanftmütigen, sittsamen Natur einer Frau.

The myth of Perseus, told through the story of the three women who knew him best - his mother Danae, his wife Andromeda, and his victim, Medusa. History remembers him as a hero. But the women who knew him best remember a different man... Perseus grows up wanting to be a hero, but he cannot...

The story of the Siege of Troy from the infamous Helen and her sister Klytemnestra's points of view - a tale of secrets, passion and revenge from the women behind mythology's most devastating war. Two sisters parted. Two women blamed. Two stories reclaimed. 'Required reading for fans of Circe...

For millennia, men have told the legend of the woman whose face launched a thousand ships—but now it's time to hear her side of the story. Daughters of Sparta is a tale of secrets, love, and tragedy from the women behind mythology's most devastating war, the infamous Helen and her sister...