Greek Myths : A new retelling of your favourite myths that puts female characters at the heart of the story

by Higgins, Charlotte, Ofili, Chris | Greece
Published 07/07/2022 by Vintage Publishing (Vintage) in the United Kingdom
Paperback | 336 pages
128 x 197 x 29mm | 294g

'A great storyteller' Madeline Miller, author of CirceIn this powerful new collection, Charlotte Higgins foregrounds Greek mythology's most enduring heroines.

Here are the myths of Heracles and Theseus, the Trojan war, Thebes and Argos and Athens. They are stories of love and desire, adventure and magic, destructive gods, helpless humans, fantastical creatures and resourceful witches.

In this telling the female characters take centre stage as Athena, Helen, Circe, Penelope and others weave these stories into elaborate imagined tapestries. In Charlotte Higgins's thrilling new interpretation of these ancient stories, their tales combine to form a dazzling, sweeping epic of storytelling.

With a series of original drawings by Chris Ofili.