The Way Home: Ashes of Olympus Book One
by Julian Barr
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Pub Date Jul 31 2018 | Archive Date Sep 03 2018
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Description
The
gods betray you.
The winds are hunting.
Nowhere is safe.
The journey begins…
The war of the gods has left Aeneas’s country in flames. Though he is little more than a youth, Aeneas must gather the survivors and lead them to a new homeland across the roaring waves. Confronted by twisted prophecies, Aeneas faces the wrath of the immortals to find his own path.
First in a trilogy based on Virgil’s epic poetry, Ashes of Olympus: The Way Home is a tale of love and vengeance in an age of bronze swords and ox-hide shields.
The winds are hunting.
Nowhere is safe.
The journey begins…
The war of the gods has left Aeneas’s country in flames. Though he is little more than a youth, Aeneas must gather the survivors and lead them to a new homeland across the roaring waves. Confronted by twisted prophecies, Aeneas faces the wrath of the immortals to find his own path.
First in a trilogy based on Virgil’s epic poetry, Ashes of Olympus: The Way Home is a tale of love and vengeance in an age of bronze swords and ox-hide shields.
Advance Praise
‘A
sharp, action-packed novel based on ancient myth.
Barr takes one of the most famous epic journeys of classical literature and reframes it for a 21st century YA audience, challenging traditional ideas about heroism and masculinities along the way. Aeneas has never been one of my favourite ancient heroes, but this version is deeply compelling thanks to his failings and insecurities as a reluctant leader, as well as the friendships he makes along the way.
Too often, fictional adaptations of the legend of Troy leave out the all important, discomforting relationships between the ancient heroes and the gods; this is not the case here, where figures like Hera, Aphrodite and Poseidon are horrifying antagonists as well as whimsical benefactors.'
— Tansy Rayner Roberts
Barr takes one of the most famous epic journeys of classical literature and reframes it for a 21st century YA audience, challenging traditional ideas about heroism and masculinities along the way. Aeneas has never been one of my favourite ancient heroes, but this version is deeply compelling thanks to his failings and insecurities as a reluctant leader, as well as the friendships he makes along the way.
Too often, fictional adaptations of the legend of Troy leave out the all important, discomforting relationships between the ancient heroes and the gods; this is not the case here, where figures like Hera, Aphrodite and Poseidon are horrifying antagonists as well as whimsical benefactors.'
— Tansy Rayner Roberts
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