| Hades' Daughter | |
| Author: | Sara Douglass |
| Cover Artist: | David Wyatt |
| Country: | Australia |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | The Troy Game |
| Genre: | Fantasy |
| Publisher: | Voyager Books |
| Pub Date: | December 2002 |
| Media Type: | Print (hardback & paperback) |
| Pages: | 621 (first edition) |
| Isbn: | 0-7322-7164-9 |
| Oclc: | 52686527 |
| Followed By: | God’s Concubine |
Hades' Daughter is a fantasy novel by Australian writer by Sara Douglass,[1] the first book in the Troy Game series.[2] It is inspired, with some differences, by the legend of Theseus.
Hade's Daughter opens at the Troy Game quartet. It is set in the Late Bronze Age (approx. 1000–1200 BC) during the time of the great Aegean Catastrophe and some years after the fall of Troy. The story's actions are mainly between Naxos, western Greece and the mysterious land of Llangarlia in the Isle of Albion (Britain). Much of the action focuses on Brutus of Troy's banishment, after he accidentally kills his father with an arrow. After wandering among the islands of the Tyrrhenian Sea and through Gaul, where he founds the city of Tours, Brutus eventually comes to the Isle of Albion, Britain, names it after himself, and fills it with his descendants. The main characters are as follows:
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