A Thousand Ships
By Natalie Haynes
Published 2019
Read April 2022; May 2024
Natalie Haynes has been a stand-up comic, a print, radio, and TV journalist, and has published several non-fiction and fiction books. She studied The Classics at Cambridge and has spent much of her career enabling the public to engage with and enjoy the classics.
In this book she tells tales about the Trojan Wars—through the perspectives of the women involved. This reader was quite enchanted by this book. When unfamiliar with a particular god, goddess, or story, this reader consulted Wikipedia to get a little background which enabled great appreciation for Haynes’ witty and often cutting take on the story.
Thank you, Natalie Haynes, for breathing life into these stories and inducing me to learn more about them.
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