A Thousand Ships

In A Thousand Ships, broadcaster and classicist Natalie Haynes retells the story of the Trojan War from an all female perspective.This was never the story of one woman, or two It was the story of all of them In the middle of the night, Creusa wakes to find her beloved Troy engulfed in flames Ten seemingly endless years of brutal conflict between the Greeks and the Trojans are over, and the Greeks are victorious Over the next few hours, the only life she has ever known will turn to ash .The devastating consequences of the fall of Troy stretch from Mount Olympus to Mount Ida, from the citadel of Troy to the distant Greek islands, and across oceans and sky in between These are the stories of the women embroiled in that legendary war and its terrible aftermath, as well as the feud and the fatal decisions that started it all Powerfully told from an all female perspective, A Thousand Ships gives voices to the women, girls and goddesses who, for so long, have been silent. Best Read A Thousand Ships Author Natalie Haynes For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr There are so many ways of telling a war the entire conflict can be encapsulated in just one incident One man s anger at the behaviour of another, say A whole war all 10 years of it might be distilled into that But this is the women s war, just as much as it is the men s, and the poet will look upon their pain the pain of the women who have always been relegated to the edges of the story, victims of men, survivors of men, slaves of men and he will tell it, or he will tell nothing atThere are so many ways of telling a war the entire conflict can be encapsulated in just one incident One man s anger at the behaviour of another, say A whole war all 10 years of it might be distilled into that But this is the women s war, just as much as it is the men s, and the poet will look upon their pain the pain of the women who have always been relegated to the edges of the story, victims of men, survivors of men, slaves of men and he will tell it, or he will tell nothing at all They have waited long enough for their turn.And for what reason Too many men telling the stories of men to each other Do they see themselves reflected...Looks like female orientated classical retellings are continuing into 2019 and you will not see me arguing with this delightful trend at allllllRated 4.5 5 starsis a heap of melting goop on the floor I think A Thousand Ships might be the book my little mythology nerd heart has anyways been waiting for.The book covers the lead up, duration and aftermath of the Trojan War, but is told entirely from the point of view of the women queens, slaves, goddesses, nymphs, winners and losers although, there s a lotof the later There are some very familiar faces, like Helen, Penelope, Aphrodite and Hera, but there s also a lot of lesser known women, wi is a heap of melting goop on the floor I think A Thousand Ships might be the book my little mythology nerd heart has anyways been waiting for.The book covers the lead up, duration and aftermath of the Trojan War, but is told entirely from the point of view of the women queens, slaves, goddesses, nymphs, winners and losers although, there s a lotof the later There are some very familiar faces, like Helen, Penelope, Aphrodite and Hera, but there s also a lot of lesser known women, wives and daughters rarely given any real consideration in modern interpretations e.g Creusa It s not a gender swap, it doesn t take acts attributed to male characters and reassign them It s much stronger and smarter than that It simply works of the premise that what if what the women went through was consider as importan...I did like reading this story I had learnt about the trojan war when I was at primary school So this story starts with the city of Troy on fire and it is told by the top women from both sides of the war The woman of Troy go from having it all to become slaves and some will loose their lives The Greek woman are waiting for their husbands return after many years away Some will be pleased to have their husbands home and one will plot her husbands death To start with each chapter felt like a s I did like reading this story I had learnt about the trojan war when I was at primary school So this story starts with the city of Troy on fire and it is told by the top women from both sides of the war The woman of Troy go from having it all to become slaves and some will loose their lives The Greek woman are waiting for their husbands return after many years away Some will be pleased to have their husbands home and one will plot her husbands death To start with each chapter felt like a short story being told by a different woman The woman of Troy s story follows through the book.Then there is the story of the gods and their story works backwards through out the book These gods are not well behaved and have their own issues They do seen to be against humans rather than for them.Gaia Mankind was just so impossibly heavy There were so many of them and the...I am conflicted This delivered what it set out to do, which is an account of the Trojan war from a multitude of female perspectives My issue was that this is precisely what it did This was a retelling of the most straight up kind The perspectives were sometimes too brief for me to get a feel for the character behind it and others were dwelt on but never returned to, so that I felt my growing empathy severed before it had a chance to plant its roots I appreciate Haynes for delivering this st I am conflicted This delivered what it set out to do, which is an account of the Trojan war from a multitude of female perspectives My issue was that this is precisely what it did This was a retelling of the most straight up kind The perspectives were sometimes too brief for me to get a feel for the character behind it and others were dwelt on but never returned to, so that I felt my growing empathy severed before it had a chance to plant its roots ...Arc provided in exchange for an honest review It seems that retellings may just not be for me, I enjoy them all but I ve never been blown away like other readers.The woman detailed here are from both sides of the war, from all levels of society Their perspectives are written intimately and poetically but nothing immersed me the way I was expecting it to.This book was also incredibly similar to the silence of the girls by Pat Barker no new ground was tread and even the writing styles were ve Arc provided in exchange for ...Natalie Haynes retells the Iliad using a chorus of female perspectives, from goddesses to slaves, including practically every woman named in the epic and a few who aren t It therefore invites comparison with The Silence of the Girls and Circe, both of which also re centre Homeric epics on women Haynes is in a sense the most ambitious of the three, as she includes the widest range of women rather than focusing on a single or small group of characters I enjoyed the mosaic effect a lot, especial Natalie Haynes retells the Iliad using a chorus of female perspectives, from goddesses to slaves, including practically every woman named in the epic and a few who aren t It therefore invites comparison with The Silence of the Girls and Circe, both of which also re centre Homeric epics on women Haynes is in a sense the most ambitious of the three, as she includes the widest range of women rather than focusing on a single or small group of characters I enjoyed the mosaic effect a lot, especially the sense of layered causality behind the Trojan War Eris was a delightfully creepy perspective to include The increasing asperity of Penelope s letters to her absent husband are another highlight Perhaps the most upsetting perspective, appropriately enough, belongs to Cassandra She knows everyone s brutal fates yet cannot communicate or change them Clytemnestra is lik...I have sung of the women, the women in the shadows I have sung of the forgotten, the ignored, the untold I have picked up old stories and I have shaken them until the hidden women appear in plain sight I have celebrated them in song because they have waited long enough Just as I promised him this was never the story of one woman, or two It was the story of all of them A war does not ignore half the people whose lives it touches So why do we Calliope Thoroughly enjoyed this women s pe I have sung of the women, the women in the shadows I have sung of the forgotten, the ignored, the untold I have picked up old stories and I have shaken them until the hidden women appear in plain sight I have celebrated them in song because they have waited long enough Just as I promised him this was never the story of one woman, or two It was the story of all of them A war does not ignore half the people whose lives it touches So why do we Calliope Thor...A Thousand Ships by Natalie Haynes provides a unique and fresh look at the Trojan War by retelling it from an all female perspective With Homer s Iliad and his Odyssey, Virgil s Aeneid, and several classical Greek plays serving as her inspiration, Haynes gives voice to nearly two dozen females ranging from slaves, wives, mothers, daughters, sisters, nymphs, and goddesses With the exception of Calliope, the muse of poetry, who speaks in the first person, and Penelope whose voice is heard in the A Thousand Ships by Natalie Haynes provides a unique and fresh look at the Trojan War by retelling it from an all female perspective With Homer s Iliad and his Odyssey, Virgil s Aeneid, and several classical Greek plays serving as her inspiration, Haynes gives voice to nearly two dozen females ranging from slaves, wives, mothers, daughters, sisters, nymphs, and goddesses With the exception of Calliope, the muse of poetry, who speaks in the first person, and Penelope whose voice is heard in the letters she sends to Odysseus, the narrative unfolds in the third person point of view The perspective changes from one character to the...Not as terrible as her Oedipan retelling, but Haynes take on the Trojan War has the same issues as the former, starting with her repeated mistake that in wanting to retell a Greek myth in amodern mindset friendly redo, she ends up missing the point of the original In this case, the reason for the Achaeans going to war with Troy is absurd to the point of unbelievability I don t mind that they shift the traditional blaming it on Helen for a different casus belli in retellings, it can be d Not as terrible as her Oedipan retelling, but Haynes take on the Trojan War has the same issues as the former, starting with her repeated mistake that in wanting to retell a Greek myth in amodern mindset friendly redo, she ends up missing the point of the original In this case, the reason for the Achaeans going to war with Troy is absurd to the point of unbelievability I don t mind that they shift the traditional blaming it on Helen for a different casus belli in retellings, it can be done well and I ve seen it done, but I do expect credibility and Haynes fails at this.Besides, the story is all over the place All the different POVs here women every one of them don t have an unified style some are first person, such as Calliope s, others are third person, such as most of the rest of the POVs, some are omniscient narrator, such as Gaia s, ...A Thousand Ships is my first Natalie Haynes novel, so I wasn t exactly sure what to expect Wow, this is a truly majestic and captivating work of historical fiction depicting the plethora of trials and tribulation associated with the Trojan War and is told from an all female perspective It s a joy and adds to the feminism and female empowerment around at the moment in the times of the metoo movement and demonstrated female awakening The sense of time and place Ms Haynes evokes is vivid and ex A Thousand Ships is my first Natalie Haynes novel, so I wasn t exactly sure what to expect Wow, this is a truly majestic and captivating work of historical fiction depicting the plethora of trials and tribulation associated with the Trojan War and is told from an all female perspective It s a joy and adds to the feminism and female empowerment around at the moment in the times of the metoo movement and demonstrated female awakening The sense of time and place Ms Haynes evokes is vivid and extensively researched giving it a wonderfully distinct air of authenticity which runs the duration of the novel.Given that women and their achievements were either downplayed or not recognised at all in that period means that this is a long overdue and intelligent re imagining of the war For too long the part wom...

• English
• 14 October 2017
Natalie Haynes
• Hardcover
• 352 pages
• 1509836195
• Natalie Haynes
• A Thousand Ships