Hades' Daughter
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| Hades' Daughter | |
| Author | Sara Douglass |
|---|---|
| Cover artist | David Wyatt |
| Country | Australia |
| Language | English |
| Series | The Troy Game |
| Genre(s) | Fantasy novel |
| Publisher | Voyager Books |
| Publication date | 2003 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
| Pages | 672 pp |
| ISBN | ISBN 0-7653-4442-4 |
| Followed by | God’s Concubine |
Hades' Daughter is the first book in the Troy Game series by Sara Douglass.
[edit] Plot summary
It starts with an act of revenge, and shall end in destruction.
Hades Daughter opens 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 action ranges between Naxos, western Greece and the mysterious land of Llangarlia in the Isle of Albion (Britain). The main characters are:
- Genvissa, sixth daughter-heir of Ariadne (lover of Theseus), and the MagaLlan of Llangarlia.
- Brutus, leader of the Trojans.
- Membricus, Brutus' former lover and now his adviser.
- Asterion, the murdered Minotaur, half-brother to Ariadne.
- Cornelia, Brutus' wife, and the central character of the first three books of the series.
- Corineus, Brutus' captain.
- Coel, a Llangarlian mystic and warrior; also temporary lover of Cornelia.
- Loth, a strange, enigmatic Llangarlian man with a distorted antler-shaped head.
- Aerne, Gormagog of Llangarlia.
- Mag, Mother Goddess of the Waters of Llangarlia.
- And a host of various supporting characters.
[edit] Trivia
There are minor differences from the book when compared with the real legend of Theseus. Such as the fact that the Minotaur's name was not Asterion, Theseus' second wife did not die and Theseus did not have a love affair with Helen of Troy.
