![]() ![]() I still remember that snotty Argolid’s face when you ploughed the fields with salt. ![]() Playing dead might have worked a little better, perhaps, but playing mad was a good idea too. I know you did your best to avoid leaving me, still a young bride, our son just a few months old. I don’t blame you, Odysseus, of course I don’t. It remains, I’m sure you agree, an astonishing state of affairs. A thousand ships, all sailing across the perilous oceans in hope of finding one man’s wife. Shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2020, A Thousand Ships gives voices to the women, girls and goddesses who, for so long, have been silent.Ĭan it really be ten long years since you sailed from Ithaca to join Agamemnon and the other Greek kings in their ignoble quest to bring Helen back from Troy? Was it a thousand ships which sailed, in the end? That’s what the bards sing now. ![]() These are the stories of the women embroiled in that legendary war and its terrible aftermath, as well as the feud and the fatal decisions that started it all. An extract from A Thousand Ships, the new novel from broadcaster and classicist Natalie Haynes in which she retells the story of the Trojan War from an all-female perspective. The devastating consequences of the fall of Troy stretch from Mount Olympus to Mount Ida, from the citadel of Troy to the distant Greek islands, and across oceans and sky in between. ![]()
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