Cassandra
Greenwood, Kerry2023
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Bored by the tedious perfection of Olympus, the gods seek to amuse themselves by playing games with the lives of mortals. Aphrodite asserts that the power of human love will triumph over even the worst the gods can inflict: Apollo, confident that love is frail, accepts her wager. His gaming piece is Diomenes, an Achaean healer; hers, Cassandra, a Trojan princess. Diomenes, snatched from Death's embrace as a child, believes in no other gods, endeavouring to relieve human suffering as best he can. Cassandra is blessed by Apollo with the gift of prophecy - then later, for her disloyalty in praying to his rival Poseidon, cursed with the inability to speak her visions aloud. As other gods are drawn into the game, Achaean armies march to lay siege to Troy, and the paths of Diomenes and Cassandra converge...
Main title:
Cassandra / by Kerry Greenwood.
Author:
Edition:
Large print edition.
Imprint:
Leicester : Ulverscroft, Aurora, 2023.
Collation:
483 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Series title:
Delphic women ; n2.
ISBN:
9781399137928 (paperback)
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
414927
More Information:
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Penrith | Large Print - Fiction | GREENW | Onloan - Due: 03 Feb 2025 |