Troy by Adèle Geras (Miriam Margolyes, narrator)
Geras brings a feminist perspective to this classic story but the appeal is much broader than that. Not only does she bring the gods and myths of ancient Greece...
Tag: Greek mythology
Zeus and the Thunderbolt of Doom by Joan Holub & Suzanne Williams
This was an example of a middle grade book that was quite different than the more detailed and complex young adult books I have read. This is more like a chapt...
Adventures of Achilles by Hugh Lupton
As we approached the holidays and the end of 2012 I was working on some freelance projects and found myself working in libraries quite often. As is often the c...
The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
As regular readers know, I’m a big fan of reworked or retold myths and legends and so was excited to dig into The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller. To...
Tales from the Odyssey series by Mary Pope Osborne
I was vaguely familiar with Mary Pope Osborne‘s Tales from the Odyssey series but hand’t read any of it until I stumbled upon book two at a library ...
Corydon & The Island of Monsters by Tobias Druitt
Corydon and the Island of Monsters (Corydon Trilogy) is another young adult book I picked up in the discount section of Half-Price Books. It too deals with myth...