The Lost Books of the Odyssey by Zachary Mason

Author:Zachary Mason [Mason, Zachary]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9780224090223
Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux
Published: 2010-02-02T05:00:00+00:00

*In the eighteenth century B.C. there was a thriving cult of the goddess Quickness, known for virginity, quick thinking, harsh laughter and an association with owls. Her particular enemy was Death, with whom she had fought a number of inconclusive wars, her object in which seems to have been eradicating his kingdom and ushering in an era of immortality. Her cult was immensely popular but such was the ruggedness of montane Greece that it soon speciated into a dozen subgenera. By the twelfth century B.C. her incarnation as Pallas Athena had displaced all others and is now remembered to the exclusion of her sisters. Quickness was a more lively goddess than Athena, open to human sacrifice and, in contrast with her sister, as much a user and a predator as a lover of heroes.

*At the time, Achaean men would marry around fifteen and Achaean women around twelve, so this would be well into his married life.

*Upon returning from the Trojan War, Agamemnon was murdered by his wife, Clytemnestra.

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