"Alessandro Baricco re-creates the siege of Troy through the voices of twenty-one Homeric characters in the narrative idiom of our modern imagination"--Cover p. [2].

Compelled by his father Zeus to accept the evil king Polydectes's challenge to bring the head of the monstrous Medusa to the Aegean island of Serifos, Perseus, although questioning the gods' interference in human lives, sets out, accompanied by his beloved Andromeda, a princess with her own harsh destiny to fulfill.

Homer's Odyssey is not the only version of the story. Mythic material was originally oral, and also local -- a myth would be told one way in one place and quite differently in another. I have drawn on material other than the Odyssey, especially for the details of Penelope's parentage, her early life and marriage, and the scandalous rumors circulating about her. I've chosen to give the telling of the story to Penelope and to the twelve hanged maids....

Still longing for adventure, Princess Helen of Sparta maintains her disguise as a boy to join her unsuspecting brothers as part of the crew of the Argo, the ship commanded by Prince Jason in his quest for the Golden Fleece.

After becoming the Furies of Greek mythology, three angry high school girls take revenge on everyone who deserves it.

"The otherworldly Karou struggles to come to terms with who and what she is, and how far she'll go to avenge her people"--

Can Emily control the power of the flame and save Olympus? Or is everyone--god and human--doomed? A deadly plague has struck Olympus. When Pegasus falls ill, Emily has to act. Her hunt for a cute takes her to modern London and back to the origins of Olympus. In the present, she must face the full forces of the CRU. In the past, she must confront Cronus, the father of the gods and leader of the Titans, who is intent on destroying his offspring. When...

Pandy, Alcie, Iole, and Homer travel to Rome to search for another deadly evil--greed--and encounter Julius Caesar, and the Roman gods.

Caught in the middle of an ancient power struggle, Emily and Pegasus must venture to Diamond Head volcano in Hawaii to track down the one thing that can save Olympus--before the Titans get there first.

Nimbus, a lonely pegasus, searches for a fallen star to wish for a friend and meets a unicorn named Kelp along the way.