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Category: myth and legend

The Fickleness of Gods

On June 12, 2023 By Andrew G LockhartIn Book Review, heroic deeds, myth and legendLeave a comment

(and Goddesses) Atalanta by Jennifer Saint 'When Atalanta posted herself on the extreme right flank at some distance from her fellow-hunters,' wrote Robert Graves in The Greek Myths, 'two Centaurs ..... decided to ravish her, each in turn assisting the other. But as soon as they ran towards her, she shot them both down and …

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On October 4, 2022 By Andrew G LockhartIn Book Review, myth and legend, Science fiction and fantasyLeave a comment

Dracula by Bram Stoker 'There lay Lucy, seemingly just as we had seen her the night before her funeral. She was, if possible, more radiantly beautiful than ever, and I could not believe she was dead. The lips were red, nay redder than before, and on her cheeks was a delicate bloom.' What is there …

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ARIADNE

On November 25, 2021 By Andrew G LockhartIn Book Review, heroic deeds, myth and legend1 Comment

by Jennifer Saint 'What do you imagine the wedding of an Olympian god to be like? The bridal pair descending in a chariot of clouds, pulled by silver horses?' Ariadne - library edition The author's debut novel, Ariadne is a retelling of an old Greek myth or, more correctly, two, maybe three, intertwined myths. First, …

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