Normally, with these types of stories (if you would call them that) this authors note would be telling you about how my mother would rock me to sleep whispering to me about Heracles or my grandfather gifting me the penguin edition of Mythos for my 8th birthday leading me to become enthralled and study it at university and that now I am a lecturer on the topic. Sadly, none of these are true. I, like many children learnt about Greek mythology through Mr Riordan. I was around 9 when I read the first Percy Jackson book and was immediately enchanted. Since then I have read and watched as much media concerning it that I could access and to this day it is a very fixed obsession.
If I had not told you, I am sure it would be quite easy to infer considering I am writing this on Wattpad. On this same website I have attempted to write about Greek myths before, but that has been abandoned for now. In all fairness to myself I was trying to condense the entirety of the Iliad into a chapter. However, to me this is much more attainable, just focusing on each character.
Now, for what I actually intend to do. I would like to make this my love letter to Greek mythology, detailing the lives of women involved in it, overshadowed or hated. I'd like to do this in several sections: Mortals, Immortal, God's and Monsters. They won't be perfectly divided as I need to pick exactly which women I am going to do and may change my mind later or add some. If it is very jumbled I will make a revised version with the chapters all in order.
Reference books:
>Ovid's Metamorphoses- Mary.M.Innes translation, Penguin classics
>Hesiod: Theogony and Works and Days- M.L West translation, Oxford world classics
>Quintus Smyrnaes: Post Homerica- Neil Hopkins translation
>Homer: The Iliad & The Odyssey- Samuel Butler translation, King Solomon
>Aeschylus: The Oresteia- Ted Hughes translation
>Virgil: The Aeneid- Michael Oakley translation, Wordsworth classics
>Euripides: Iphigenia at Aulis- Pantelis Michelakis (& Others), Ducksworth Companions
>The Cypria- D.M.Smith
>Apollodorus' Bibliotheca and Hyginus' Fabulae-R.Scott Smith & Stephen M.Trzaskoma translation
>Euripides: Medea and other plays- Philip Vellacott translation, Penguin classics
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The Women of Greek myth
Non-FictionI have always adored Greek mythology, trying to consume as much knowledge as I could, about famed Paris, Jason, Agamemnon, Theseus and mighty Zeus. But more interesting still have I found the women that's stood beside them. And especially those who...
