Hades' Daughter is the first book in the Troy Game

Troy Game

The Troy Game is a quartet by Australian author Sara Douglass consisting of four books: Hades' Daughter, God's Concubine, Darkwitch Rising and Druid's Sword. It centres around a group of characters who are reincarnated at the end of each book and take the form of renowned historical figures from...

 series by Sara Douglass.

Plot summary

It starts with an act of revenge, and shall end in destruction.

Hades Daughter opens 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 action ranges between Naxos, western Greece and the mysterious land of Llangarlia in the Isle of Albion (Britain). The main characters are:

• Genvissa, sixth daughter-heir of Ariadne
  Ariadne
  Ariadne , in Greek mythology, was the daughter of King Minos of Crete, and his queen Pasiphaë, daughter of Helios, the Sun-titan. She aided Theseus in overcoming the Minotaur and was the bride of the god Dionysus.-Minos and Theseus:...
  
   (lover of Theseus
  Theseus
  For other uses, see Theseus Theseus was the mythical founder-king of Athens, son of Aethra, and fathered by Aegeus and Poseidon, both of whom Aethra had slept with in one night. Theseus was a founder-hero, like Perseus, Cadmus, or Heracles, all of whom battled and overcame foes that were...
  
  ), and the MagaLlan of Llangarlia.
• Brutus
  Brutus
  Brutus is the cognomen of the Roman gens Junia, a prominent family of the Roman Republic. The plural of Brutus is Bruti, and the vocative form is Brute, as immortalized in the quotation "Et tu, Brute?", from Shakespeare's play, Julius Caesar....
  
  , leader of the Trojans.
• Membricus, Brutus' former lover and now his adviser.
• Asterion
  Asterion
  In Greek mythology, Asterion denotes two sacred kings of Crete. The first Asterion or Asterius , the son of Tectamus or son of Neleus and Chloris by the Greeks called "king" of Crete, was the consort of Europa and stepfather of her sons by Zeus, who had to assume the form of the Cretan bull of...
  
  , the murdered Minotaur, half-brother to Ariadne.
• Cornelia, Brutus' wife, and the central character of the first three books of the series.
• Corineus, Brutus' captain.
• Coel, a Llangarlian mystic and warrior; also temporary lover of Cornelia.
• Loth, a strange, enigmatic Llangarlian man with a distorted antler-shaped head.
• Aerne, Gormagog of Llangarlia.
• Mag, Mother Goddess of the Waters of Llangarlia.
• And a host of various supporting characters.

Trivia

There are minor differences from the book when compared with the real legend of Theseus.