The Firebrand | Literary Precedents
The tale of Troy is most fully told in Homer's epic, and the fortunes of its chief characters further developed in the Golden Age dramas of Aeschylus, especially Agamemnon, the first of his trilogy on the fall of the house of Atreus, and later in Euripides' Trojan Women. The popularization of Greek myth and Homeric epic for new generations of readers has long been a staple in both mainstream historical fiction and in fantasy literature. Feminist interpretations of classical drama and epic poetry which identified their patriarchal context and recast the image of the famous villainesses and...
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