Madeline Miller's Circe meets Cersei Lannister in a stunning debut following Clytemnestra, the most notorious heroine of the ancient world and the events that forged her into the legendary queen. As for queens, they are either hated or forgotten. She already knows which option suits her best ... You were born to a king, but you marry a tyrant. You stand by helplessly as he sacrifices your child to placate the gods. You watch him wage war on a foreign...

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...

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,...