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Cover artist David Wyatt Language English Pages 621 pp (first edition) Publisher HarperCollins | 3.9/5 Goodreads Country Australia Publication date December 2002 Originally published December 2002 Genre Fantasy literature Followed by Gods' concubine | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Media type Print (hardback & paperback) Similar Sara Douglass books, The Troy Game books | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hades' Daughter is the first book in the Troy Game series by Sara Douglass.
Contents
Plot summary
It starts with an act of revenge, and shall end in destruction.
Hade's Daughter opens at the Troy Game quartet. It is set in the Late Bronze Age (approx. 1000-1200 BC) during the time of the great Aegean Catastrophe and some years after the fall of Troy. The story's actions are mainly between Naxos, western Greece and the mysterious land of Llangarlia in the Isle of Albion (Britain). Much of the action focuses on Brutus of Troy's banishment, after he accidentally kills his father with an arrow. After wandering among the islands of the Tyrrhenian Sea and through Gaul, where he founds the city of Tours, Brutus eventually comes to the Isle of Albion, Britain, names it after himself, and fills it with his descendants. The main characters are as follows:
Trivia
There are minor differences from the book when compared with the real legend of Theseus.