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  • Cover of The Golden Fleece and the Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles
    The Golden Fleece and the Heroes Who Lived Before AchillesNovel

    Padraic Colum · standalone novel · 1921

    Mythic fantasy, adventurous in tone, about quests and gods, set in ancient world and mediterranean.

    “A somewhat fictionalized account of ancient Greek heroes.”

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  • Cover of Earth Giant
    Earth GiantNovel

    Edison Marshall · standalone novel · 1960

    Historical fantasy.

    “At the age of five, Heracles crushed in his chubby fists the spade-shaped heads of two messengers of death that had invaded his bed of sheepskins.”

    from the catalogue

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  • Cover of The Adventures of Odysseus and the Tale of Troy
    The Adventures of Odysseus and the Tale of TroyNovel

    Padraic Colum · standalone novel · 1918

    Fantasy, about war, set in mythological world.

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  • Cover of The World's Desire
    The World's DesireNovel

    H. Rider Haggard & Andrew Lang · standalone novel · 1890

    Fantasy, about forbidden love.

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  • Cover of Theseus
    TheseusSeries

    series · 2 books · 1958

    completed

    Historical fiction, about coming of age.

    “Renault wrote a sequel, The Bull from the Sea, in 1962.”

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    Singer to the Sea GodNovel

    Vivien Alcock · standalone novel · 1992

    Fantasy, about slavery.

    “Phaidon, slave in the court where his uncle Pelops is cook, is a horrified observer when Perseus turns up with Medusa's head and turns the king and his fellows to stone.”

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