“Briseis is just one among thousands of women living behind the scenes in this war–all of them erased by history.” Goodreads rating: 4.30/5 THE SILENCE OF THE GIRLS BY PAT BARKERĪ retelling of the Trojan War primarily from the perspective of Briseis, a captured slave for Achilles. And Part Three offers “A Toolbox for Inner Strength.” Lesser argues that change in the culture starts with inner change, and that no one-woman or man-is immune to the corrupting influence of power.”

Part Two looks at women and power and expands what it means to be courageous, daring, and strong. “Part One explores how history is carried forward through the stories a culture tells and values, and what we can do to balance the scales. Eve in the Garden of Eden, Pandora and the box, Cassandra who was given the gift of prophecy and the curse that no one would believe her. Goodreads rating: 4.17/5 CASSANDRA SPEAKS BY ELIZABETH LESSERįamous women’s stories finally told from their perspective.

We get perspectives of the Trojan women, Greek women, queens who have normally been only footnotes, and the goddesses who are responsible for the war. Goodreads rating: 4.26/5 A THOUSAND SHIPS BY NATALIE HAYNESĪ retelling of the Trojan War through the eyes of the women and goddesses who experienced it. Circe only appears as a character in the stories of the men she interacted with, but now we finally get her story from her point of view! Including her relationships with Daedalus and Odysseus, her involvement in the monsters Scylla and the Minotaur, and her habit of turning men into pigs. She was exiled to an island when Zeus found out she was a witch (he was afraid of her). The others were recommended to me in the comments on social media! GREEK MYTHOLOGY But I can say that Circe, A Thousand Ships, Cassandra Speaks, and The Book of Longings are very much worth it. I have not read all of these books so I cannot say whether they are all worth it. For example, Eve, Tiger Lily, the fictional wife of Jesus, Cleopatra, King Arthur’s Queen, and more.

The second set of books are a medley of different women, fictional and historical. The first books on this post include stories of the women in Greek Mythology, mortals and goddesses both. There are so many books that give voices to these lost females and here is a list. The untold stories of women from mythology and history. RETELLING OF MALE DOMINATED STORIES FROM THE FEMALE PERSPECTIVE

The forestwife by theresa tomlinson