Daughters of Sparta
Heywood, Claire2021
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As princesses of Sparta, Helen and Klytemnestra have known nothing but luxury and plenty. With their high birth and unrivalled beauty, they are the envy of all of Greece. Such privilege comes at a high price, though, and their destinies are not theirs to command. While still only girls they are separated and married off to legendary foreign kings Agamemnon and Menelaus, never to meet again. Their duty is now to give birth to the heirs society demands and be the meek, submissive queens their men expect. But when the weight of their husbands' neglect, cruelty and ambition becomes too heavy to bear, they must push against the constraints of their sex to carve new lives for themselves - and in doing so make waves that will ripple throughout the next three thousand years.
Main title:
Daughters of Sparta / Claire Heywood.
Author:
Heywood, Claire, author
Imprint:
London : Hodder & Stoughton, 2021.
Collation:
336 pages : map (black and white) ; 24 cm
ISBN:
9781529349931 (hbk. :)
Language:
English
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BRN:
1923857
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