POTSDAM, N.Y., Oct. 29, 2008 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Enter A Door at Aulis and find the ship of dead gods in author Margaret Weitzmann's spellbinding book.
An earthquake strikes a command post on the Spartan border. Out of a blue flare steps an outlandish woman. The priestess Klaris can certify she is not a witch. What is she then? A spy for Sparta's enemy Argos? Suddenly whole sets of VIPs are trying to pin a name to her: the princess Hermione, her mother Helen Queen of Sparta, her aunt Klytemnestra Queen of Mycenae. To Menelaus King of Sparta and Agamemnon King of Mycenae she becomes a huge rolling stone -- trouble for their Alliance. What their deductions and decisions about her place in their world achieve is a rush -- right into the great War with Troy.
A Door at Aulis raises some intriguing questions. Were Homer's heroes real people? Can the Iliad be read as history? Then where does one begin to suspect history breaks down into fiction? The fatal falling-out between Achilles and Agamemnon: what was that really about? Odysseus of Ithaka: hero? Or spoiler?
And that famous roster of ships: Seafaring Nauplion was there, at Troy. Why was it left out?
Our stranger, trapped by time, becomes part of this history. As Iphigeneia, she learns it is based on a lie. But who was she? Who will she be next?
If A Door at Aulis bears a message, it is this: Never trust a history based on just one source.
About the Author
The author lives in Potsdam New York. She has four children, six grandchidren and she was just recently blessed as she became a great-grandmother. Trained as an artist, she has turned to writing as full time as makes no nevermind. Among her favorite American authors are Philip K. Dick, Louise Erdrich, Tom Pynchon and Canadian-born Ross MacDonald. Her plots draw on myth and legend, history, current events, science, Scripture and dream. A dream inspired Aulis; a month-long bus trip around the Peloponnesus helped map the plot onto the geography and history of Mycenean Greece.
A Door at Aulis * by Margaret Weitzmann
Publication Date: January 31, 2006
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