Bring Down the Sun - Hardcover

Tarr, Judith

 
9780765303974: Bring Down the Sun
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0765303973 ISBN 13: 9780765303974
Verlag: Tor Books, 2008

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Alexander the Great ruled the greatest Empire of the ancient world, but he was ruled by his mother, called Olympias. There are as many legends about this powerful Queen as there are of her famous son, and the stories began long before she even met Philip of Macedon.

 

Priestess of the Great Goddess, daughter of ruling house of Epiros, witch, and familiar of Serpents...she was a figure of mystery, fascination and fear even during her own lifetime.  Author Judith Tarr uses the legends to weave an intensely romantic fantasy novel set in ancient Greece and Macedon.


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Judith Tarr is the author of more than twenty fantasy novels, including her Hound and Falcon series, and her Avaryan Rising books.  Her most recent novel for Tor was Queen of the Amazons in 2006. Tarr lives in Vail, Arizona, where she breeds Lipizzan horses at Dancing Horse Farm.

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Ancient history and violent religious myth collide in this romantic fantasy-tinged biography of Myrtale, the imposing, powerful mother of Alexander the Great. Tarr (Queen of the Amazons) opens with a weak segment on the queen's early days as Polyxena, an impossibly beautiful and rather childish acolyte of the Mother goddess. Once she seduces Philip of Macedon, who calls her Myrtale (crowned one) and promises her a kingdom to go with her queenly new name, the story becomes far more compelling and suspenseful. As temples and kingdoms plot and quarrel, Myrtale mercilessly wields the authority of the retiring goddess and her own sexuality to further her ambitions for her husband and her son. (The book ends with Alexander's birth, leaving unmentioned the complex and bloody intrigues of Myrtale's later life as the dowager empress Olympias.) Occasionally confusing but often vibrant, this romantic story warms into a strong narrative about a fascinating woman. (June)
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Verlag
Tor Books
Erscheinungsdatum
2008
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0765303973
ISBN 13 
9780765303974
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
224
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