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Electra

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'My sandals were made to glide over the marble floor of the Palace of Mycenae, not to walk the road like a common market trader.

Of course, as a princess, I was unused to walking.

Only female slaves and whore are seen in public.

Only female slaves and whores walk...'

Electra is the final book in The Delphic Women trilogy.

Electra is forced to flee her home after witnessing the shocking murder of her father, Agamemnon. But life outside the palace walls is frightening.

The free and easy ways of her foreign companions disturb her—especially the scandalous relationship between the Trojan woman, Cassandra, and the two men—but she needs their help to survive. Along the way, Electra's travels—driven by a burning desire for revenge—become a different kind of journey.

Electra evokes the dark perils and pleasures of the ancient world with a contemporary sensual intensity.

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    • Publisher's Weekly

      Starred review from October 21, 2013
      Greenwood fans will welcome her thoughtful second reinterpretation of a well-known Greek myth (after Medea). Troy has fallen, and the surviving Greek leaders have undertaken their various journeys homeward. The fate of their supreme leader, Agamemnon, is conveyed through the eyes of his daughter Electra, who begins her narrative by recounting, “I knew she was going to kill him when she laid out the sacred tapestries.” As in her prior ancient historicals, Greenwood offers up several first-person storytellers, and makes them all convincing. The ignored Trojan seer Cassandra and the peripatetic Odysseus also lend their voices to the tale. Most significantly, Greenwood adds a new, but plausible wrinkle, basing her version on the assumption that revenge for Electra’s father’s death was not her sole motive in killing her mother, Clytemnestra, and her mother’s lover, Aegisthus. Among Greenwood’s other talents, she displays a gift for writing songs of the period.

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