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The grave of Hestia

By:Patrice Martinez
Publisher:Independent Publishers Group (Chicago Review Press)
Print ISBN:9781547531431
eText ISBN:9781547531431
Edition:0
Format:Reflowable

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During the 1513th olympiad, the monarch Acrisios, king of New Argos, reigned over the Hellenic coalition with an iron fist ... But the python of Delphi prophesied his death by the hands of his grandson. Then Acrisios took the lead and locked Danae, his daughter, into a penitentiary fortress, placed in a geostationary orbit, above the powerful Argos ... Danae and her son Perseus seemed lost forever, but Zeus Olumpios - the master of the Olympus - decided to put an end to the throne of the potentate... Free adaptation of the myth of Perseus, "The grave of Hestia" reflects the family condition of the dynasty of Atrides, tossed by couloir intrigues, feelings of hatred towards his relatives, where the game of power exposes the home to all deleterious temptations led by the autocracy...