About the author
Costanza Casati is an Italian-born novelist whose fiction re-enters myth and history through women whose political intelligence is often reduced to scandal or revenge in the surviving tradition.
Clytemnestra begins with its queen as a Spartan girl, athlete, sister, wife, and mother before reaching the House of Atreus. The novel makes vengeance the result of a long history of coercion, rule, bereavement, and remembered violence.
Where to start
Start with Clytemnestra, Casati's debut novel and a complete retelling of the Spartan queen's life from childhood to the aftermath of Troy.
