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The Trojan War is over. The true nightmare has only just begun.
After ten years of blood and ash, Priam's city has fallen. Odysseus, the Man of Many Wiles, the architect of the Wooden Horse, longs for only one thing: to return home. To see Ithaca again, his wife Penelope, and his son Telemachus.
But no one defies the Gods with impunity. By profaning the Trojan temples and challenging the ocean, the Greek heroes have awakened Poseidon's wrath. The journey home will not be a triumphant crossing. It will be a descent into hell.
From man-eating Cyclopes to Circe's poisoned magic, from the specters of Hades to the deadly song of the Sirens, Odysseus will have to sacrifice his pride, his ships, and his men in order to survive. And when he finally sets foot on his own land, worn down and broken, the greatest slaughter of all will be waiting for him at the very heart of his palace.
Forget the golden legend. Discover the myth in all its brutality.
In this fifth volume of The Dynasty of the Aether, Greek mythology loses its poetic varnish and reveals the mud, salt, and steel of the Bronze Age. A dark, psychological, and visceral tale, where heroes are only men struggling desperately against an implacable fate.
