The Greek myths are among the world's most important cultural building blocks and they have been retold many times, but rarely do they focus on the remarkable women at the heart of these ancient stories. Stories of gods and monsters are the mainstay of epic poetry and Greek tragedy, from Homer to Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides, from the Trojan War to Jason and the Argonauts. And still, today, a wealth of novels, plays and films draw their inspiration...

"Elektra is a spellbinding reimagining of the story of one of Greek mythology's most infamous heroines, from Jennifer Saint, the author of the beloved international bestseller, Ariadne. Three women, tangled in an ancient curse. When Clytemnestra marries Agamemnon, she ignores the insidious whispers about his family line, the House of Atreus. But when, on the eve of the Trojan War, Agamemnon betrays Clytemnestra in the most unimaginable way, she must...

Cuando Clitemnestra se casa con Agamenón, no conoce los rumores insidiosos sobre su linaje, la Casa de Atreo. Pero cuando en la víspera de la Guerra de Troya, Agamenón la traiciona de la forma más impensable, Clitemnestra debe enfrentarse a la maldición que ha devastado a su familia. En Troya, la princesa Casandra posee el don de la profecía, pero también carga con su propia maldición: nadie creerá nunca lo que ella ve. Cuando tiene una visión...

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From the thrilling imagination of bestselling, award-winning Colm Tóibín comes a retelling of the story of Clytemnestra and her children—"brilliant...gripping...high drama...made tangible and graphic in Tóibín's lush prose" (Booklist,...

"The definitive biography of dancer and choreographer Martha Graham, one of the great American artists of the twentieth century"-- "In the pantheon of American modernists, few figures loom larger than Martha Graham. One of the greatest choreographers ever to live, Graham pioneered a revolutionary dance technique--primal, dynamic, and rooted in the emotional life of the body--that upended traditional vocabulary and shaped generations of dancers and...