Everything you need to understand or teach A Thousand Ships by Natalie Haynes.
A Thousand Ships by Natalie Haynes is profoundly in continuity with the great Greek epics The Iliad and The Odyssey, and explores the events before, during and after the Trojan War from the perspective of the women who lived through it. The novel is mostly set in Troy itself, but we also travel to the Greek mainland and the magical islands, inhabited by gods and monsters. In these various locations we meet grieving widows, patient wives, dutiful daughters, and vengeful goddesses caught up in the madness of the conflict from its divine beginnings to its human culmination: from the groanings of the goddess Gaia to the reunion of Odysseus and Penelope. It is a tale of extremes and opposites including themes of life and death, love and hatred, and war and peace. The themes of A Thousand Ships are motherhood and war, marriage, sex and death, sacrifice and journeying.
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