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Xenia in the Court of the Winds
A Historical Fiction Short Story by Scott Oden
Subgenres:
- Myth Retelling,
- Ancient Greece,
- Coming-of-Age
This book is for you if you're into...
- Myth retellings from the monster's perspective
- Ancient Sicily with outsider heroes and uneasy alliances
Sometimes, the monster is just a man . . .
Painted as the savage man-eating Cyclops in Homer's masterwork, The Odyssey, Polyphemus comes to life in Scott Oden's epic tale of duty and obligation. A giant, one-eyed foreigner living on the fringes of Aeolia in Sicily, Polyphemus shuns his neighbors; he scavenges from shipwrecks along the rocky coast, robbing the dead and leaving their bodies to the sea's embrace -- a monstrous breach of the ancient laws of hospitality.
But, when he is himself robbed and blinded by brutal Achaeans journeying home from the War at Troy, Polyphemus is quick to seek justice from those same neighbors. Making his way to the Court of the Winds, where the King of Aeolia holds sway, he befriends a fisherman's son, young Glaukos son of Lykaon. Together, they seek to answer the question: can a self-professed monster, an outsider who flaunts the Gods and their laws of hospitality, find justice at the Court of the Winds?
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