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Rage of Queens (Homeric Chronicles Book 3)

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by Janell Rhiannon


  Hesione: Troy and Salamis, sister to Priam, taken captive by Herakles and given to Telemon of Salamis. Her sons fight against Troy.

  Iphigenia: Mycenae, daughter of King Agamemnon and Queen Clytemnestra

  Kalchas: Mycenae, seer for Agamemnon and the Greeks

  Knaxon: Aulis, Achilles' servant and mentored by Thetis

  Laertes: Ithaka, retired king of Ithaka, father of Odysseus, husband of Anticlea

  Leda: Sparta, Queen of Sparta, mother of Clytemnestra, Pollux, Castor, and Helen

  Lycomedes: Skyros, king of Skyros, father to Deidamia, grandfather to Neoptolemus

  Menelaus: Sparta, brother to Agamemnon, husband of Helen

  Nauplius: Euboea, father of Palamedes

  Neola: Mycenae, trusted servant of Clytemnestra

  Neoptolemus: Skyros and Phthia, son of Achilles

  Nestor, Pylos, old king of Pylos, in Messenia, wise council warrior

  Odysseus: Ithaka, King of Ithaka, husband to Penelope, father to Telemachus

  Orestes: Mycenae, son of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra

  Palamedes: Mycenae, personal servant to Agamemnon

  Patrokles: Phthia, guardian and elder cousin of Achilles

  Peleus: Phthia, King of Phthia, father of Achilles

  Penelope: Sparta and Ithaka, cousin to Helen and wife of Odysseus

  Phoenix: Phthia, friend to Peleus, guardian of Achilles

  Pirithous: Athens, helped Theseus kidnap Helen, he wanted Persephone as a wife

  Pollux: Sparta, son of Tyndareus, brother to Helen

  Tantalus: Mycenae, Prince of Mycenae, murdered by Agamemnon and first husband of Clytemnestra

  Telemachus: Ithaka, son of Odysseus

  Telemon: Salamis, traveled with Herakles, father of Ajax, took Hesione as concubine

  Theseus: Athens, King of Athens, kidnapped Helen

  Thrasymedes: Pylos, son of Nestor

  Thyestes: Mycenae, King of Mycenae defeated by Agamemnon

  Tyndareus: Sparta, King of Sparta, father of Clytemnestra, Pollux, Castor, and Helen

  THE TROJANS AND THEIR ALLIES

  Aeneas: Troy, Trojan warrior, nephew of King Priam, and founder of Italy

  Agelaus, Troy, royal bull herder and breeder, foster father of Paris

  Andromache: Hypoplakia Thebe and Troy, daughter of Eetion and Mira, wife of Hektor

  Astynome: Chryse, daughter of Chryses, prize concubine of Agamemnon

  Briseis: Pedasus and Lyrnessus, daughter of Briseus and Shavash, widow of prince Mynes, concubine and wife of Achilles

  Briseus: Pedasus, father of Briseis, King of Pedasus

  Cassandra: Troy, daughter of Priam and Hecuba, cursed priestess of Apollo

  Chryses: Chryse, priest of Apollo, father of Astynome

  Corythus: Troy, son of Prince Paris and Oenone

  Eetion: Hypoplakia Thebe, King of Hypoplakia Thebe, father of Andromache

  Eurypylus: Tenedos, Son of King Telephus and a physician

  Evenus: Lyrnessus, king of Lyrnessus

  Hapeshet: Methymna, Seer and wise man to King Mikares

  Hecamede: Tenedos, war prize gifted to Nestor

  Hektor: Troy, eldest son of Priam and Hecuba, the Golden Prince of Troy and Commander of the Trojan army

  Helenus: Troy, son of Priam and Hecuba, twin brother of Cassandra

  Hypsipylos: Methymna, Warrior commander of King Mikares army, betrothed to the Princess Peisidike

  Kebriones: Troy, bastard son of Priam by Melita

  Korei: Tenedos, distinguished warrior in King Telephus' army, father of Valparun

  Lateke: Methymna, hand maiden to Princess Peisidike

  Lexias: Troy, wife to Agelaus, foster mother of Paris

  Lykaon: Troy, half-brother to Hektor and Paris

  Megapenthes: Troy, bastard son of Menelaus by Teridae

  Malina: Lyrnessus, handmaiden to Prince Mynes, mother of Yoruk

  Melita: Troy, concubine to King Priam

  Mikares: Methymna, King of Methymna, a kingdom on Lesbos

  Mynes: Lyrnessus, prince of Lyrnessus, first husband of Briseis

  Oenone: wood nymph married to Paris, mother of Corythus

  Paris: Troy, second son of Priam and Hecuba, the Forgotten Prince of Troy

  Peisidike: Methymna, princess and daughter of King Mikares

  Penthesileia: nomadic, Amazonian queen and warrior

  Polyxena: Troy, youngest daughter of Priam and Hecuba

  Shavash: Pedasus, mother of Briseis

  Sidika: Lyrnessus, Queen of Lyrnessus

  Telephus: Tenedos, King of Tenedos, a province in Mysia

  Teridae: Troy, concubine of King Menelaus, mother of Megapenthes

  Troilus: Troy, youngest son of Priam and Hecuba

  Valparun: Tenedos, son of Korei

  Yoruk: Lyrnessus, prince of Lyrnessus, son of Mynes and handmaiden Malina

  THE GODS

  Aphrodite: Goddess of Love and Beauty

  Apollo: God of the Sun and Healing

  Ares: God of War

  Athena: Goddess of War and Wisdom

  Artemis: Goddess of Hunting and Chasteness

  Cebron: River god, father of Oenone

  Eleithyia: Goddess of Childbirth

  Eris: Goddess of Strife

  Hera: wife of Zeus’

  Hermes: Messenger of Zeus

  Poseidon: God of the Seas

  Thetis: sea nymph, Goddess of Water; also, wife of Peleus, beloved of Zeus, and Achilles’ mother

  Zeus: father of the Olympians, true father of Pollux and Helen

  Meet these characters:

  CLYTEMNESTRA

  ACHILLES

  HEKTOR

  Listen and watch as I breakdown the:

  First Trojan War Timeline

  TIMELINE

  for the Heroes & Heroines of the Iliad and Odyssey

  Book One

  Song of Sacrifice

  1295 BCEHektor is born in Troy

  Agamemnon is born in Mycenae

  1290 BCEParis is born in Troy

  1288 BCEClytemnestra born in Sparta

  1285 BCEAndromache born

  1282 BCEBriseis is born in Pedasus

  Menelaus is born in Mycenae

  1279 BCEOdysseus is born in Ithaka

  1272 BCEWedding of Thetis and Peleus

  Paris fights Ares’ Bull

  The Judgment of Paris (15 years old)

  1271 BCEAchilles born to Thetis and Peleus

  1270 BCEPenelope born

  Cassandra’s Curse

  Leda raped by Zeus

  Clytemnestra (18) marries Agamemnon (25)

  Helen born

  1269 BCE Briseis (13) meets Hektor (26)

  1268 BCEHektor (27) meets Andromache (18)

  1267 BCEBriseis (15) meets Mynes (25)

  1266 BCEIphigenia born to Clytemnestra & Agamemnon

  Achilles (5) with Chiron the Centaur

  Hektor (29) meets Andromache (19)

  1265 BCEHektor (30) marries Andromache (20)

  Briseis (17) marries Prince Mynes (27)

  1263 BCEOrestes born to Clytemnestra & Agamemnon

  1262 BCEPhila born, daughter of Briseis (20) and Mynes

  1260 BCE Elektra born to Clytemnestra & Agamemnon

  1259 BCEPhila dies of illness

  1257 BCEAchilles (14 yrs) returns to Peleus

  Studies under Phoenix

  Corythus born, son of Oenone and Paris

  Achilles (14) sent to Skyros by Thetis

  1254 BCEAchilles (17) marries pregnant Deidamia (16)

  Helen kidnapped by Theseus and Pirithous

  1253 BCENeoptolemus (Achilles’ son) born

  1252 BCEHelen (18) marries Menelaus (30)

  Odysseus (27) marries Penelope (18)

  1251 BCEHermione born to Helen and Menelaus

  Paris quests to rescue Hesione

  Menelaus attends funeral of Catreus of Crete

  Paris (39) takes Helen (19)

  Telemachus b
orn to Odysseus and Penelope

  Gathering at Aulis for Troy

  Odysseus retrieves Achilles (20) at Skyros

  Iphigenia (15) at Aulis

  Book Two

  Rise of Princes

  1251 BCEIphigenia’s funeral

  Agamemnon’s fleet at Lemnos

  Paris farewells Oenone

  Yoruk born to Mynes and the handmaiden, Malina

  1250 BCEAchilles attacks Methymna

  1249 BCEAgamemnon’s fleet arrives at Tenedos

  1248 BCEQueen Leda travels to Mycenae

  Agamemnon’s fleet arrives at Troy

  Ambush of Caster and Pollux

  The united armies of the west threaten mutiny

  Clytemnestra meets Aegisthus

  1247 BCE Odysseus’ revenge

  Nauplius seeks restitution

  1246 BCE Neoptolemus sent to Chiron

  Penelope waits with Anticlea

  Paris reveals the truth to Helen

  1245 BCE Penelope consults the Oracle

  Orestes (18) promised to Hermione (6)

  Aphrodite consults Zeus

  Achilles takes Lyrnessus

  Princess Briseis captured

  Lykaon sold into slavery

  1244 BCEPriam marries Melita

  1243 BCE Achilles and Odysseus at Bay of Edremit

  Menelaus takes Megapenthes as heir

  1242 BCE Refugee Camp established in Troy

  1240 BCE Aphrodite blesses Helen

  1239 BCE Corythus (17) to Troy

  Achilles sacks Hypoplakia Thebe

  Achilles ambushed Troilus and Polyxena

  Astynome given to Agamemnon

  Book Three

  Rage of Queens

  The events of book three span the year 1238 BCE. The events are told chronologically, and oftentimes a single day will span several chapters, as the end draws nearer.

  MY MYRMIDONS

  I want to thank everyone in my life who has endured my incessant talking about Greek mythology and how much my back hurts.

  I also wish to thank all my readers who let me know what they love and who they hate in the books. I really enjoy our interactions. Keep it coming :)

  This has been a crazy year and a half of writing. I lost my father to a rare gall bladder cancer and I felt much like Achilles shorn of Patrokles, rudderless and and just spinning my wheels. Then the pandemic hit and ... well, I appreciate your patience in getting this book finished. From the bottom of my heart, I thank you.

  Book four, likely to be titled Song of the White Isle, is already in the works. We will have new characters emerging, who will interact with the ones we love who make it "home."

  MYRMIDONS!!!!!

  References & Inspirations

  Aeschylus, Agamemnon.

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  Arnson Svarlien, Diane; Scodel, Ruth, translator. Euripides: Andromache, Hecuba, Trojan Women (Hackett Classics) (March 15, 2012).

  Cassandra. Retrieved from https://www.greekmyths-greekmythology.com/the-myth-of-cassandra/

  Claybourne, Anna. “Achilles.” Gods, Goddesses, and Mythology. Tarrytown, NY: Marshall Cavendish Reference. Retrieved from https://search.credoreference.com/content/entry/mcgods/achilles/0

  Cuypers, Martine, Ptoliporthos Akhilleus: the sack of Methymna in the Lesbou Ktisis, Hermathena, v.173-174, 2005, pp. 117-135.

  Due, Casey and Mary Ebbott, Mothers-in-arms: soldiers’ emotional bonds and Homeric similes. War, Literature and the Arts: An international Journal of the Humanities, 2012. Retrieved from Academia.edu.

  Hanson, Victor Davis, On Barry Strauss’s The Trojan War: A New History. Retrieved from www.newcriterion.com.

  Hauser, Emily. ‘There is another story’: writing after the Odyssey in Margaret Atwood’s The Penelopiad Classical Receptions Journal, Volume 10, Issue 2, 1 April 2018, Pages 109–126.

  Hesiod, The Homeric Hymns and Homerica, H.G. translated by Evelyn-White

  Higgins, Charlotte, The Iliad and what it can still tell us about war. Retrieved from www.theguardian.com.

  Homer, Iliad.

  Homer, Odyssey.

  Hyginus, Fabulae, Cassandra 65. Retrieved from http://www.theoi.com/Text/HyginusFabulae3.html#65.

  Hyginus, Fabulae, Palamedes105. Retrieved from http://www.theoi.com/Text/HyginusFabulae3.html#105.

  Mark, Joshua J., Oenone, Ancient History Encyclopedia, 2009.

  Mason, Wyatt. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/02/magazine/the-first-woman-to-translate-the-odyssey-into-english.html (On Emily Wilson’s Odyssey translation)

  Mendelsohn, Daniel, Battle Lines: A Slimmer, faster Iliad. Retrieved from www.NewYorker.com.

  Muich, Rebecca M. Pouring out tears: Andromache in Homer and Euripides https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/handle/2142/16755

  Ovid, Ars Amatoria.

  Ovid, Herois 5, translated by R. Scott Smith.

  Parada, Carlos, Peleus, Greek Mythology Link. Retrieved from http://www.maicar.com/GML/Peleus.html

  Parada, Carlos, Agamemnon, Greek Mythology Link. Retrieved from http://www.maicar.com/GML/Agamemnon.html

  Parada, Carlos, Paris, Greek Mythology Link. Retrieved from http://www.maicar.com/GML/Paris.html

  Polyxena: Encyclopedia Mythica from Encyclopedia Mythica Online. Retrieved from http://www.pantheon.org/articles/p/polyxena.html. Accessed March 03, 2017.

  Reardon, Tyler (Dramaturge) https://pacifictheatrearts.wordpress.com/ancient-burial-customs/

  Restrepo Documentary, June 2010. Directed by Tim Hetherington and Sebastian Junger.

  Seneca, Thyestes.

  Shay, Jonathan, M.D., PhD., Achilles in Vietnam” Combat Trauma and the Undoing of Character. Touchstone: New York: NY, 1994.

  Stewart, M.W. Achilles. Retrieved from https://mythagora.com/bios/achilles.html (now available in Kindle format)

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  Wilson, Emily. Odyssey, translation. W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition (November 7, 2017).

 

 

 


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