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Book Information:
Genre: Fantasy
Author: Sara Douglass
Name: HadesтАЩ Daughter
Series: Book One of the Troy Game
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HadesтАЩ
Daughter
Book One of the Troy
Game
Sara Douglass



During the late Bronze Age, well over a millennium before the birth of C the
Minoan king on Crete held the Athenian king to ransom. Every nine the Athenian
king sent as tribute seven male youths and a like numb female virgins, the cream
of Athenian society, to Knossos on Crete. On< Crete the Athenian youths were
fed into the dark heart of the gigantic rinth, there to die at the hands of the
dreaded Minotaur Asterion, unnj son of the Minoan king's wife and a bull.
One year the Athenian king sent his own son Theseus as part of the sacrifice.
Theseus was determined finally to stop the slaughter, and to this it was aided by
Ariadne, daughter of the Minoan king, half sister to Ast and Mistress (or High
Priestess) of the Labyrinth. Ariadne shared with seus the secrets and mysteries
of the labyrinth, and taught him the mea which Asterion might be killed. This she
did because she loved Theseus.
 Theseus entered the labyrinth and, aided by Ariadne's secret magic, b the
tricks of the labyrinth and killed Asterion in combat. Then, accomp; by Ariadne
and her younger sister Phaedre, Theseus departed Crete and shattered labyrinth
for his home city of Athens.

THE LATE BRONZE AGE
THE ISLAND OF NAXOS, EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN

Confused, numbed, her mind refusing to accept what Theseus demanded,