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Daughters of Sparta by Claire Heywood
Daughters of Sparta by Claire Heywood











Daughters of Sparta by Claire Heywood

Both sisters are often maligned for their actions leading up to, during, and after the Trojan War. Remembered for her role as villainess to her own children in Aeschylus’ Oresteia, Klytemnestra has become a symbol for womanly rage and vengeful mothers. Helen of Troy’s sister Klytemnestra, sometimes spelled Clytemnestra, is less popular but just as controversial. Her illicit relationship with Paris, a Trojan prince who falls in love with her even though she’s a married woman, is often regarded as one of the most well-known romances in literature, up there in notability with Romeo and Juliet in terms of star-crossed lovers. Immortalized by the Iliad and since portrayed in television, films, and books, Helen is often seen as a representation of the bored unfaithful wife and a selfish woman.

Daughters of Sparta by Claire Heywood

The legend of Helen of Troy is a well-known one. Perfect for readers of Circe and Ariadne, Daughters of Sparta is a vivid and illuminating retelling of the Siege of Troy that tells the story of mythology’s most vilified women.Vivian Nguyen ‘25 / Emertainment Monthly Staff Writer Their duty is now to give birth to the heirs society demands and be the meek, submissive queens their men expect.īut when the weight of their husbands’ neglect, cruelty and ambition becomes too heavy to bear, they must push against the constraints of their sex to carve new lives for themselves – and in doing so make waves that will ripple throughout the next three thousand years. While still only girls they are separated and married off to legendary foreign kings Agamemnon and Menelaos, never to meet again.

Daughters of Sparta by Claire Heywood

Such privilege comes at a high price, though, and their destinies are not theirs to command. With their high birth and unrivalled beauty, they are the envy of all of Greece. Two stories reclaimed.Īs princesses of Sparta, Helen and Klytemnestra have known nothing but luxury and plenty.













Daughters of Sparta by Claire Heywood