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Medusa (2021)
8.0/10on Open Library
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Medusa begins again on an island with her sisters until Perseus arrives. The compact, illustrated retelling spends time on what a young woman might say about the events that turned her into a legend.
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I, Medusa (2025)
8.0/10on Open Library
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Before Medusa becomes a Gorgon, her service to Athena seems to offer a way to make a life on her own terms. Gray follows that younger Medusa into the world of the gods, grounding the transformation story in her trust and ambition.
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Girl, Goddess, Queen (2023)
10.0/10on Open Library
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Persephone makes a deliberate journey to the underworld to escape the future arranged for her on Olympus. This young-adult take on the Hades myth gives her a plan, a voice, and a chance to decide what kind of queen she wants to be.
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Psyche and Eros (2023)
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Psyche trains to be a hero, and Eros finds himself tangled in the curse intended for her. The novel alternates their perspectives in a new version of the Greek lovers’ tale best known from the Roman author Apuleius.
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Till We Have Faces (1956)
9.3/10on Open Library
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Psyche’s older sister Orual has her own account of the bargain that takes Psyche away. The retelling lets you hear Orual challenge the gods and ask whether her devotion to her sister gave her the right to decide what Psyche should do.
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Medea (2024)
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Medea starts as a girl in Colchis with a gift for magic and little control over her life. See what her bargain with Jason over the Golden Fleece looks like before she leaves home and becomes the woman remembered for her revenge.
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No Friend to This House (2025)
8.0/10on Open Library
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Jason arrives in Colchis to steal the Golden Fleece, and Medea is the person with the power to save him. Haynes follows the priestess through that choice and the price it ultimately exacts, so the voyage and Euripides’s tragedy read as parts of the same story.
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House of Names (2017)
8.0/10on Open Library
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Clytemnestra opens the story with her account of Iphigenia’s death, then Orestes and Electra take it in different directions. Tóibín uses the house of Atreus to write about the experience of living through one revenge and becoming part of the next.
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Phaedra (2023)
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Phaedra goes from Crete to Athens as Theseus’s wife. The novel uses several voices to revisit her accusation against Hippolytus and to ask what happens when the court decides whose word to believe.
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Ariadne Unraveled (2021)
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This retelling follows what happens after Ariadne helps Theseus through the Labyrinth, giving her relationship with Dionysus room to develop. Choose it if you want the Cretan myth to open into a romance about the princess’s life beyond the maze.
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Orpheus Girl (2019)
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The Orpheus and Eurydice myth becomes a contemporary young-adult story about two girls sent to a conversion camp. The rescue takes place in a recognizable human institution, and the narrator’s love for her girlfriend gives the descent its urgency.
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Alcestis (2010)
8.0/10on Open Library
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Alcestis agrees to die in place of her husband. Beutner fills in her time in the underworld, including an encounter with Persephone, and asks what the bargain did for Alcestis herself.
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Weight (2005)
7.3/10on Open Library
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Atlas gets room to speak about the burden he carries and the visit from Heracles that briefly relieves him of it. Winterson turns a familiar episode from the labors into a short, reflective book about who gets to put a burden down.
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Autobiography of red (1998)
10.0/10on Open Library
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Geryon, the red monster Heracles kills for his cattle, becomes a young artist and photographer. Carson rebuilds the myth as a verse novel and gives the supposed monster a whole life in which falling for Herakles is only one part.
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Wake, Siren (2019)
10.0/10on Open Library
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Women and other figures from Ovid’s Metamorphoses take turns speaking in short, distinct voices. This collection travels through the Greek stories as retold by a Roman poet, so it suits readers who want to compare several transformations in one book.
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The way to Colonos (1960)
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Cicellis brings stories from Greek tragedy into twentieth-century Greece. The title story and its companions keep the old family obligations recognizable while letting them play out in places where the people involved could be your neighbors.
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