The Children of Jocasta - Natalie Haynes

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The Children of Jocasta - Natalie Haynes'Passionate and gripping' Madeline Miller, bestselling author of Circe A powerful retelling of Oedipus and Antigone that casts fresh light on the women the myths overlooked. From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Stone Blind, Natalie Haynes. My siblings and I have grown up in a cursed house, children of cursed parents . . . Jocasta is just fifteen when she is ordered to marry the King of Thebes, an old man she has never met. But it is her duty to

And when they go head-to-head with the Olympians

It covers Components 21 and 22 from the 'Culture and the Arts' Component Group:

Natural causes

and three on the civil war of 49–48

Next come longer unadapted extracts from a range of authors

to Penelope awaiting the return of Odysseus

The full GCSE vocabulary is provided at the back of the book

and a comprehensive introduction includes portraits of the authors featured in the book

girls and goddesses at the centre of the story

to the three goddesses whose feud started it all

his wife Metella and their household

The story takes place in Pompeii shortly before the eruption of Vesuvius in AD 79