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The Troy Game is a quartet by Australian author Sara Douglass consisting of four books: Hades' Daughter, God's Concubine, Darkwitch Rising and Druid's Sword. It centres on a group of characters who are reincarnated at the end of each book and take the form of renowned historical figures from different ages. The entire series is set in London ...
Hades' Daughter is a fantasy novel by Australian writer by Sara Douglass, [1] the first book in the Troy Game series. [2] It is inspired, with some differences, by the legend of Theseus . Plot summary
'blessed one, blessedness' [1]) is the name of two figures from ancient Greek religion and mythology: Macaria, daughter of Heracles and Deianira who willingly accepted to be sacrificed in order to save her people. [2] Macaria, daughter of Hades, king of the Underworld. [3]
This Macaria is attested in a single source, the 10th-century Byzantine encyclopedia Suda, according to which she is a daughter of Hades, the king of the Underworld; [3] no mother is mentioned. Nothing else is known about her, as she is neither explicitly stated to be an immortal goddess nor a mortal woman, nor confirmed to live in the ...
Because SparkNotes provides study guides for literature that include chapter summaries, many teachers see the website as a cheating tool. [7] These teachers argue that students can use SparkNotes as a replacement for actually completing reading assignments with the original material, [8] [9] [10] or to cheat during tests using cell phones with Internet access.
The Titan's Curse was published by Miramax Books, an imprint of Hyperion Books for Children, [1] and thus Disney Publishing (succeeded by the Disney Hyperion imprint). It was released in the United States and the United Kingdom on May 1, 2007. [2] The novel was also released in audiobook format, read by Jesse Bernstein. [4] [5]
Eris/Discordia – The goddess of chaos and the daughter of Nyx. In The House of Hades, Percy and Annabeth encounter Eris alongside Nyx and Eris' siblings near the Mansion of Night. Eros/Cupid – The god of love who is the son of Aphrodite/Venus and Ares/Mars. In The House of Hades, Jason and Nico convince Cupid to give them Diocletian's Scepter.
The Naiad nymph Minthe, daughter of the infernal river-god Cocytus, became concubine to Hades, the lord of the Underworld and god of the dead. [9] [10] In jealousy, his wife Persephone intervened and metamorphosed Minthe, in the words of Strabo's account, "into the garden mint, which some call hedyosmos (lit. 'sweet-smelling')".