mythology Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/tag/mythology/ Connecting Books and Readers One Review at a Time Wed, 05 Feb 2025 00:50:52 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/cropped-books-on-table-2-150x150.jpg mythology Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/tag/mythology/ 32 32 38398750 Babylonia: A Novel https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2025/02/babylonia-a-novel/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2025/02/babylonia-a-novel/#respond Wed, 05 Feb 2025 08:49:39 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=18966 Orphaned as a baby after her mother killed herself, Semiramis has been believed to be cursed or a witch her entire young life. But she doesn’t care what the ignorant people of her tiny Assyrian village think. She knows she’s destined for greatness and when the opportunity arises, she grabs it. This is Babylonia, historical […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2025/02/babylonia-a-novel/feed/ 0 18966 Those Fatal Flowers https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2025/01/those-fatal-flowers/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2025/01/those-fatal-flowers/#respond Wed, 22 Jan 2025 08:54:28 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=18925 While my fascination surrounding the legend of Troy has waned (I can only watch Eric Bana and Brad Pitt in the movie so many times) my curiosity about mythology has not. Those Fatal Flowers is a genre-bending tale of a handmaiden to a goddess who is cursed for her carelessness, but has the opportunity to […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2025/01/those-fatal-flowers/feed/ 0 18925 A Song to Drown Rivers https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/10/a-song-to-drown-rivers/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/10/a-song-to-drown-rivers/#respond Thu, 10 Oct 2024 07:42:58 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=18722   There is a Chinese folk tale about four sisters so beautiful they could be denied nothing.  One of those sisters is Xishi and in Ann Liang’s novel, A Song to Drown Rivers, she is called upon to use her beauty for vengeance and destruction. For Xishi, growing up in a tiny village in the […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/10/a-song-to-drown-rivers/feed/ 0 18722 Hera by Jennifer Saint https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/09/hera-by-jennifer-saint/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/09/hera-by-jennifer-saint/#respond Fri, 13 Sep 2024 07:30:38 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=18639   Jennifer Saint’s new novel, Hera is novel about the queen of all Greek mythology. Or to be more precise, the long-suffering wife of king of the gods, Zeus. The novel opens when the Olympians defeat the Titans, the ancient gods who appeared out of Chaos to rule the world. Zeus and Hera are brother […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/09/hera-by-jennifer-saint/feed/ 0 18639 Medea by Eilish Quin https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/02/medea-by-eilish-quin/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/02/medea-by-eilish-quin/#respond Mon, 12 Feb 2024 08:27:38 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=18225 There are some criminal court cases where the defense attorney cannot argue their client’s innocence because guilt is so clear. Other ways of mitigating the evidence must be found. Author Eilish Quin successfully adopts the same strategy in her debut novel, Medea, about one of Greek mythology’s most despised women. A woman who killed her […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/02/medea-by-eilish-quin/feed/ 0 18225 Atalanta by Jennifer Saint https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2023/05/atalanta-by-jennifer-saint/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2023/05/atalanta-by-jennifer-saint/#respond Thu, 25 May 2023 07:02:16 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=17576 How much Greek mythology is too much? Apparently, there is no limit so far. I loved Jennifer Saint’s last novel, Elektra, so knew I wanted to read her latest, Atalanta. Especially because this is a character about whom I know nothing, except she’s a Greek princess who is the only woman to sail with Jason […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2023/05/atalanta-by-jennifer-saint/feed/ 0 17576 Clytemnestra: A Novel https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2023/05/clytemnestra-a-novel/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2023/05/clytemnestra-a-novel/#respond Tue, 09 May 2023 07:22:14 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=17540 I may be struggling with my new release reading recently, but Greek mythology retellings continue to make me all kinds of happy. Clytemnestra by Costanza Casati is my latest favorite, a bold portrayal of a woman known only as the vengeful wife of Agamemnon, the King who won the war with Troy. The other ‘facts’ of […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2023/05/clytemnestra-a-novel/feed/ 0 17540 Stone Blind by Natalie Haynes https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2023/02/stone-blind-by-natalie-haynes/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2023/02/stone-blind-by-natalie-haynes/#respond Tue, 07 Feb 2023 08:09:58 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=17284 How wonderful to start the week with a book I loved so much I’m ready to read it again. Stone Blind by Natalie Haynes is her latest foray into the retelling of famous Greek myths from a female perspective. In this case it is the fearsome Medusa, known as one of the most terrifying monsters in […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2023/02/stone-blind-by-natalie-haynes/feed/ 0 17284 Elektra: A Novel of the House of Atreus https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2022/05/elektra-a-novel-of-the-house-of-atreus/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2022/05/elektra-a-novel-of-the-house-of-atreus/#comments Wed, 11 May 2022 04:46:36 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=16714 A Greek queen, her daughter, and a princess of Troy are thrown into each other’s lives thanks to the Trojan War. In her new novel, Elektra, Jennifer Saint paints a complex portrait of these women as they shift between being pawns in a patriarchal game of domination and agents of their own lives determined to […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2022/05/elektra-a-novel-of-the-house-of-atreus/feed/ 2 16714 The Women of Troy: A Novel https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2021/08/the-women-of-troy-a-novel/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2021/08/the-women-of-troy-a-novel/#comments Mon, 30 Aug 2021 04:57:24 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=16042 Helen has always been the most well-known woman from the legend of Troy, but author Pat Barker brings to life another woman who, through no will of her own, played a role even more critical to the Trojan War mythology. Briseis.  The queen of a city sacked by Achilles when the war first began, she […]

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