![]() ![]() In another interview, she said "he fact that women’s narratives have been historically overlooked is a tremendous result if, like me, you love these myths and have been immersed in them since childhood, and also want to write your own versions of them". The characters are right there, in the shadows, waiting to be found. In an interview, she said "I knew I wanted to tell the women’s stories because they have been almost entirely overlooked. Haynes' motivation for A Thousand Ships was to illuminate women's stories in the classics. The women tell their stories with occasional interjections and commentary from Calliope, including Hecabe, Briseis, Andromache, Cassandra, Creusa, Penelope, Clytemnestra, Iphigenia, and Penthesilea, as well as some female goddesses, including Oenone, Thetis, Eris, and Athena. Format Īs a framing device, the muse Calliope narrates numerous stories from the perspective of the women involved in the Trojan War to an unnamed (but implied to be Homer) male poet. ![]() It was shortlisted for the 2020 Women's Prize for Fiction. ![]() Print ( hardback and paperback), e-book, audiobookĪ Thousand Ships is a 2019 novel by Natalie Haynes which retells the mythology of the Trojan war from the perspective of the women involved. ![]()
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