Leda retelling
I told you no character is safe
Do you like 139 pages of Leda complaining about sexism and opression? No? Well too bad! That's all we have!
"For fans of Circe, The Silence of the Girls, and A Thousand Ships."
Using Madeline Miller, Pat Barker and Natalie Haynes as reference only makes it worse
With ai generated image on the cover as bonus
7. Tyndareus' reaction — political calculations
15. The choice of Menelaus — Leda cannot stop it
16. Clytemnestra married to Agamemnon — another king who takes without asking
20. Leda and the gods — her final confrontation with Zeus
23. Old age — Leda alone, finally free
Of course this "feminist" retelling will remove that Helen chose Menelaus as a husband to make it a forced union 🙄
0% chance this book will acknowledge that Clytemnestra was a bad mother to Electra and Orestes
90% chance that chapter 20 will be some stupid feminist rant to Zeus that will be too modern for Bronze Age Greece
"I became a woman in Sparta by the usual means: marriage, negotiation, the exchange of my body for an alliance my father needed. I do not say this with bitterness. Or perhaps I do."
We're only on page 2...
"Tyndareus expected a wife who would sit quietly, bear children, and manage the household stores. He got something else."
We have a Strong Independent Woman!™️ here... 😑
"But it was acknowledgment, and in a world where existed as ornaments or instruments, acknowledgment was it's own kind of power."
"A queen who knows too much is a queen who makes men umcomfortable, and umcomfortable men become dangerous men. The elders of the council tolerated me because Tyndareus tolerated me, and Tyndareus tolerated me because I was useful."
This constant complaint will keep going
"My mother, Eurythemis, prepared me for the journey to Sparta with the brisk efficiency of a woman who had survived her own political marriage and had no patience for sentiment."
"She had survived my father's moods, his other women, his interminable wars with neighboring kings over cattle and grazing rights and the imagined insults that men in power collect the way other men collect debt."
Leda, you think every single men in the country looks down on you and you have an annoying obsession with looking powerful. You're not that different from them
Tyndareus and Leda don't love each other. Because every.single.couple needs to be unhappy
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