“Often, they would say that at the very moment Agamemnon raised the knife, Artemis took pity on Iphigenia and swapped her for a deer. In this version of the story, my daughter lives on as a priestess and favourite of the goddess on an island somewhere. Crucially, in this telling, Agamemnon did nothing more than slaughter a simple animal. It’s poetic and pretty, and so very clean.”
― Elektra
― Elektra
“I should start dating again. Should I start dating again? Yeah. I should. Except that . . . men. No, thank you.”
― Under One Roof
― Under One Roof
“It was the women, always the women, be they helpless serving girls or princesses, who paid the price.”
― Ariadne
― Ariadne
“I would be Medusa, if it came to it, I resolved. If the gods held me accountable one day for the sins of someone else, if they came for me to punish a man’s actions, I would not hide away like Pasiphae. I would wear that coronet of snakes, and the world would shrink from me instead.”
― Ariadne
― Ariadne
“Why did I, Phaedra of Knossos and Athens, put my faith in a man? When I should have seen that what I truly wanted was simply to run away.”
― Ariadne
― Ariadne
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