The Lyre and the Terracotta Cup - Softcover

Howlett, J.R.

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798366471312

Verlag: Independently published, 2022

Inhaltsangabe

A coming of age tale set against the historical backdrop of Ancient Greece. A story about awakening passions, lost innocence, love, faith, and the acceptance of the fate the Gods have decided for us.

428 BC: Fleeing an earthquake sent by the God Poseidon, that destroys their home in Miletus, Anatolia, a young girl is taken by her father’s concubine Eurydice to the great Greek city of Athens. Here she meets her half-sister, Aspasia, the widow of the powerful statesman Pericles, and is plunged into Athenian life. She is schooled by Aspasia and also learns much from the philosopher Socrates.
On the cusp of womanhood she is captivated by the charismatic Alcibiades who awakens sexual feelings in her. Fate also delivers her father’s young slave, the lyre player Lampros – a strikingly beautiful, red-haired young man – back into her new world and she wrestles with the growing love she has for him as she navigates her way into adulthood.
A transformative event reveals that the Gods have given her the power of prophecy. Amazed and frightened by this ability to foresee the future, a decision is made that she should travel to the sacred site of Eleusis where she will live and train to become a priestess, learning the secrets of the Greater Mysteries which are enacted there. She encounters an elusive priestess, Chryse, who has been forbidden to practise the religious rites in the Temple of Demeter and hides a devastating secret. After a dramatic revelation they travel together to Delphi to consult The Oracle and discover the truth about the prophecies that haunt our young heroine. The answer leads her back to Athens, where she will face the tragedy of loss, but finally learns where her true destiny lies.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Independently published
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2022
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 13: 9798366471312
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 240
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