- Hades' Daughter
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name = Hades' Daughter
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image_caption = "Hades' Daughter" first edition cover.
author =Sara Douglass
illustrator =
cover_artist = David Wyatt
country =Australia
language = English
series = "The Troy Game "
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genre =Fantasy novel
publisher =Voyager Books
pub_date = December 2002
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media_type = Print (Hardback &Paperback )
pages = 621 pp "(first edition)"
isbn = ISBN 0732271649
oclc =
preceded_by =
followed_by =God’s Concubine "Hades' Daughter" is the first book in the
Troy Game series bySara Douglass .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 ofAriadne (lover ofTheseus ), 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.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.
Publication history
*2002, AUS, Voyager ISBN 0732271649, Pub date December 2002, Hardback
*2003, AUS, Voyager ISBN 0732271657, Pub date September 2003, Trade Paperback
*2004, AUS, Voyager ISBN 0732271665, Pub date February 25, 2004, Mass Market Paperback
*2003, US, Tor Books ISBN 0765305402, Pub date January 1, 2003, Hardback
*2003, US, Tor Books ISBN 0765344424, Pub date September 15, 2003, Paperback
*2003, UK, Saint Martin's Press ISBN 0765305402, Pub date February 13, 2003, Hardback
*2003, UK, Saint Martin's Press ISBN 0765344424, Pub date November 30, 2003, Paperback
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