Tis the season...to escape holiday madness with a book that takes you far outside your own world! We're back with more ratings and reviews of recently published retellings and reimagining of Greek myths (yes, all Greek this time). The reviews are more mixed this time around, including one DNF. *gasp* The Women of Troy: A... Continue Reading →
Add These Myth Retellings to your To-Be-Read List
If you've been here a while, then you know that I am a bona fide Madeline Miller fangirl. I've written two posts about Miller's bestselling retellings of classical myths, Circe and The Song of Achilles, both of which I cannot recommend highly enough. But Miller is not the only one reimagining ancient stories from new... Continue Reading →
The Princess Bride is a Greek Novel: Part Two
Another full-length blog post on the Greek novels and The Princess Bride?? Inconceivable! Last week we talked about the frame narrative, historical past setting, pirate encounters and fake deaths, false identities and disguises, and the episodic plot that are all common to both this late 80s favorite and the ancient Greek romance novels. Today we finish... Continue Reading →
The Princess Bride is actually an ancient Greek novel.
Lest any of you think I am trying to stir drama: I am not saying that William Goldman, author of The Princess Bride, plagiarized his whole delightful book. I am saying that the general story, as laid out by Grandpa in the opening of the 1987 movie adaptation, has been around forever: "fencing, fighting, torture,... Continue Reading →
Medea Palatina 