This is followed by a narrative set in the Greek camp, where a group of captive Trojan women await to be distributed among the warriors as war prizes. Her chapter concludes with her dying as she attempts to escape. The next vignette brings readers into the heart of war’s destruction, the fallen city of Troy in flames, through the point of view of Creusa, wife of Trojan war hero Aeneas, who has fled the city with their son. She decides the bard will have to give up something he values if he wishes to receive an epic from her. The novel begins with an old bard calling on the muse of epic poetry, Calliope, but she has grown weary of the same stories being told. This study guide refers to the 2019 hardcover edition published by Mantle Press. Weaving back and forth through time, Haynes stitches together vignettes about women told in an array of ancient sources spanning hundreds of years, from Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey of classical Greece to Augustan Roman poets Virgil and Ovid.
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