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2) Elektra
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"Elektra is a spellbinding reimagining of the story of one of Greek mythology's most infamous heroines, from Jennifer Saint, the author of the beloved international bestseller, Ariadne. Three women, tangled in an ancient curse. When Clytemnestra marries Agamemnon, she ignores the insidious whispers about his family line, the House of Atreus. But when, on the eve of the Trojan War, Agamemnon betrays Clytemnestra in the most unimaginable way, she must...
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Colm Toibin brings a modern sensibility and language to an ancient classic, and gives this extraordinary character new life, so that listeners not only believe Clytemnestra's thirst for revenge, but applaud it. He brilliantly inhabits the mind of one of Greek myth's most powerful villains to reveal the love, lust, and pain she feels. Told in fours parts, this is a fiercely dramatic portrait of a murderess, who will herself be murdered by her own son,...
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Songs of Penelope volume 2
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"On the isle of Ithaca, queen Penelope maintains a delicate balance of power. Many years ago, her husband Odysseus sailed to war with Troy and never came home. In his absence, Penelope uses all her cunning to keep the peace--a peace that is shattered by the return of Orestes, King of Mycenae, and his sister Elektra. Orestes' hands are stained with his mother's blood. Not so long ago, the son of Agamemnon took Queen Clytemnestra's life on Ithaca's...
5) Electra
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Cuando Clitemnestra se casa con Agamenón, no conoce los rumores insidiosos sobre su linaje, la Casa de Atreo. Pero cuando en la víspera de la Guerra de Troya, Agamenón la traiciona de la forma más impensable, Clitemnestra debe enfrentarse a la maldición que ha devastado a su familia. En Troya, la princesa Casandra posee el don de la profecía, pero también carga con su propia maldición: nadie creerá nunca lo que ella ve. Cuando tiene una visión...
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"A psychological-historical novel that re-tells of the story fo the House of Atreus from Aeschylus' trilogy 'The Oresteia.' As the story unfolds, contemporary themes are struck about mothers and daughters, feminity and masculinity, intergenerational transmission of trauma, the Oedipus complex, and the Electra complex, These are other themes emerge naturally in the narrative relevant to contemporary feminism, gener studies, psychology, classical studies...
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