Κιθαιρώνας

The women of Thebes are disappearing one after another, struck by a new disease called 'maenadism'. Rumour has it that a new god, Dionysus, is in Thebes, and no one is safe; most anxious of all is King Pentheus, Dionysus's cousin and champion of law and order. When Ioli, a young former slave married to the soldier Menippos, feels the first symptoms, she starts to fear the beast lurking inside her. Sooner or later she will have to leave her home and her city for a frenzied journey into the forests of Mount Kithaironas, a choice that will change her life and the world around her. A retelling of the myth of the Bacchae through fantasy, eroticism and body horror.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

464 pages in the original

Genres

Speculative (assigned by AI)

Set in

Greece, antiquity

First published

2022 by Καστανιώτης

Author's age

46 when first published

ISBN

9789600370713 (original)