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• Atalanta

  Saint, Jennifer

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  When Atalanta was born, she was abandoned on the hillside, left to die because she wasn’t a boy. She was found and rescued by a mother bear, who raised her alongside her cubs. When Atalanta is older, Artemis, the goddess of the hunt and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Hestia Strikes a Match

  Grillo, Christine

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  Hestia was the Greek virgin goddess of the hearth, home, and hospitality. Hestia maintained the hearth fire of both Mount Olympus and the homes of the Greeks. This fire was important because it was used for cooking and for keeping the home…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Stone Blind

  a Novel

  Haynes, Natalie

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  Medusa's is the classic story of blaming the victim and then (literally) turning her into a monster. Assualted by Poseidon in the Temple of Athene, the beautiful and mortal Medusa is the one who is punished by turning her hair to snakes…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Dear Medusa

  Cole, Olivia A.

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  From our YA collection, here is Medusa's story brought into the modern era. This intense and intimate novel-in-verse follows 16-year-old Alicia, who is "monstered" after being sexually abused by a teacher then cast as the slut who asked…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Shadow of Perseus

  a Novel

  Heywood, Claire,

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  Danae was an Argive princess and the mother of Perseus who, it was prophesied, would grow up to kill her father, the King of Argos. Because of this prophesy, she is banished from her homeland with her unborn child. Danae finds herself…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Clytemnestra

  a Novel

  Casati, Costanza, 1995-

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  Clytemnestra, the wife of Agamemnon and queen of Mycenae, has had a decade to plot his destruction upon his return. Why would she do this? Because not only had he murdered her husband and infant son so that he could have her, he then…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Shit Cassandra Saw

  Stories

  Kirby, Gwen E.,

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  In this short story collection, Cassandra's story is rewritten. Just because she has been cursed to know the future, doesn't mean she has to tell the Trojans and she might even be able to help the virgins escape and keep the witches from…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Galatea

  a Short Story

  Miller, Madeline

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  Galatea, "she who is milk-white," is a name of the statue carved of ivory by Pygmalion of Cyprus. He falls in love with his statue and Aphrodite, the goddess of love, fulfills his wish and makes the statue real. But this is her story. The…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Ithaca

  North, Claire

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  This is the story of Penelope of Ithaca, famed wife of Odysseus, as it has never been told before: On the isle, it is the choices of the abandoned women—and their goddesses—that will change the course of the world.

• Queens of Themiscyra

  Lynn, Hannah

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  This third book in a trilogy, focuses on the legendary Amazon women, mainly Queen Hippolyte who goes to Athens to fight alongside Achilles while her sister, rises to the role after her sister, Penthesilea, is left to rule but does so with…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Elektra

  Saint, Jennifer

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  Elektra is the youngest daughter of Clytemnestra and Agamemnon. She was born into a heritage of cyclical violence. She saves her brother, Orestes, when her mother take revenge on her father for killing her older sister. She can't escape…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Pandora's Jar

  Women in Greek Myths

  Haynes, Natalie

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  "Pandora is an agent of change and the embodiment of the will of Zeus. She is not an unmitigated evil as her box opening reputation might have you believe She is dual... beautiful and ugly, good and evil. What Pandora brings to mortals is…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Call Me Cassandra

  Gala, Marcial, 1963-

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  This story kicks Greek mythology into modern times as ten-year-old Rauli believes that he is the reincarnation of Cassandra born into the wrong body. Set in Cuba in the 1970s, Rauli can see the future and knows that he will die, aged…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Medusa

  Burton, Jessie, 1982-

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  Exiled to a far-flung island, Medusa has little company except for the snakes adorning her head instead of hair until a beautiful boy named Perseus arrives, distrupting her lonely existence and unleashing desire, love, and betrayal.

• The Trojan Women

  a Comic

  Euripides

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  This is the comic-book version of Euripides's classic The Trojan Women, which follows the fates of Hekabe, Andromache, and Kassandra after Troy has been sacked and all its men killed.

• A Thousand Ships

  a Novel

  Haynes, Natalie

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  Calliope, the goddess of epic poetry, narrates the unique perspective of a compilation of the many women - goddesses, Greeks, and Trojans - whose lives were affected by the war. "I have sung of the women, the women in the shadows. I have…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Women and Other Monsters

  Building a New Mythology

  Zimmerman, Jess,

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  Maybe the traits that we've been told make us dangerous and undesirable are actually our greatest strengths.

• Daughter of Sparta

  Andrews, Claire M.,

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  To save the gods’ powers, warrior Daphne, guided by Apollo, must find nine mysterious items that have been stolen from Mount Olympus—a perilous journey that will pit her against the very gods themselves.

• Greek Myths

  a New Retelling

  Higgins, Charlotte, 1972-

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  In this retelling of the Greek myths, female characters take center stage - Athena, Helen, Circe, Penelope and others weave these stories into elaborate tapestries.

• Daughters of Sparta

  a Novel

  Heywood, Claire,

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  Helen and Klytemnestra, Spartan princesses, are married off to foreign kings to give them an heir but each rebel against their husbands' neglect, cruelty and ambition and push the limits of society to make new lives for themselves.