Rachel Alexander's Blog, page 179
September 19, 2019
Since we have the birth of Heracles in Good Counselor, when was Perseus born in your story, as he’s briefly mentioned, and his birth still seems recent enough for Hera to still be miffed about it
In my telling, he was born roughly 100 years before Heracles, and completed his quest at age 25, so about seven or eight years before the events of Receiver of Many.
“But aren’t generations about 25 years, thus making it around 75 years?” I can hear you say. Well, yes and no. It relies on average marital age in Ancient Greece and depends on how many women were in the direct line of descent.
Here is the line of descent for Heracles, tracing back to Perseus:
Perseus (male) —> Electryon (male) —> Alcmene (female) —> Heracles (male)
Men at the time usually married and had children after they were 30, and women married them around the age of 15 or 16
Since we have the birth of Heracles in Good Counselor, when was Perseus born in your story, as he’s briefly mentioned, and his birth still seems recent enough for Hera to still be miffed about it
In my telling, he was born roughly 100 years before Heracles, and completed his quest at age 25, so about seven or eight years before the events of Receiver of Many.
“But aren’t generations about 25 years, thus making it around 75 years?” I can hear you say. Well, yes and no. It relies on average marital age in Ancient Greece and depends on how many women were in the direct line of descent.
Here is the line of descent for Heracles, tracing back to Perseus:
Perseus (male) —> Electryon (male) —> Alcmene (female) —> Heracles (male)
Men at the time usually married and had children after they were 30, and women married them around the age of 15 or 16
therkalexander:
notyourmistakes:
My actual reaction at the end of Destroyer of Light when I flipped...
My actual reaction at the end of Destroyer of Light when I flipped the last page and read This tale continues in The Good Counselor:
THERE’S GOING TO BE A THIRD BOOK?!????!!!
@therkalexander I AM SO EXCITED
You can read the free preview here.
Since we have the birth of Heracles in Good Counselor, when was Perseus born in your story, as he’s briefly mentioned, and his birth still seems recent enough for Hera to still be miffed about it
In my telling, he was born roughly 100 years before Heracles, and completed his quest at age 25, so about seven or eight years before the events of Receiver of Many.
“But aren’t generations about 25 years, thus making it around 75 years?” I can hear you say. Well, yes and no. It relies on average marital age in Ancient Greece and depends on how many women were in the direct line of descent.
Here is the line of descent for Heracles, tracing back to Perseus:
Perseus (male) —> Electryon (male) —> Alcmene (female) —> Heracles (male)
Men at the time usually married and had children after they were 30, and women married them around the age of 15 or 16
Since we have the birth of Heracles in Good Counselor, when was Perseus born in your story, as he’s briefly mentioned, and his birth still seems recent enough for Hera to still be miffed about it
In my telling, he was born roughly 100 years before Heracles, and completed his quest at age 25, so about seven or eight years before the events of Receiver of Many.
“But aren’t generations about 25 years, thus making it around 75 years?” I can hear you say. Well, yes and no. It relies on average marital age in Ancient Greece and depends on how many women were in the direct line of descent.
Here is the line of descent for Heracles, tracing back to Perseus:
Perseus (male) —> Electryon (male) —> Alcmene (female) —> Heracles (male)
Men at the time usually married and had children after they were 30, and women married them around the age of 15 or 16
Since we have the birth of Heracles in Good Counselor, when was Perseus born in your story, as he’s briefly mentioned, and his birth still seems recent enough for Hera to still be miffed about it
In my telling, he was born roughly 100 years before Heracles, and completed his quest at age 25, so about seven or eight years before the events of Receiver of Many.
“But aren’t generations about 25 years, thus making it around 75 years?” I can hear you say. Well, yes and no. It relies on average marital age in Ancient Greece and depends on how many women were in the direct line of descent.
Here is the line of descent for Heracles, tracing back to Perseus:
Perseus (male) —> Electryon (male) —> Alcmene (female) —> Heracles (male)
Men at the time usually married and had children after they were 30, and women married them around the age of 15 or 16
September 18, 2019
September 17, 2019
notyourmistakes:
My actual reaction at the end of Destroyer of Light when I flipped the last page...
My actual reaction at the end of Destroyer of Light when I flipped the last page and read This tale continues in The Good Counselor:
THERE’S GOING TO BE A THIRD BOOK?!????!!!
@therkalexander I AM SO EXCITED
You can read the free preview here.
Not asking about spoilers, but I remember seeing your timeline for the events regarding the series, and I was wondering when about a you would set the Trojan War, if RoM took place around 1150 BCE. Because I’ve been genuinely curious as to when the ideal t
That’s an interesting question.
Interesting because archaeologists have found at least ELEVEN layers of former city where we assume Troy once stood.
Troy was first settled and walls were erected in the early Bronze Age, somewhere around 3000 BCE. Then it was destroyed around 2600 and rebuilt. Then destroyed again and rebuilt around 2250, in 2100 and again in 1950 BCE.
In my telling, it is the late Bronze Age Troy that Zeus tasked Apollo and Poseidon to rebuild after their failed coup with Hera, putting their punishment somewhere around 1800 BCE.
Homeric Troy is often placed at 1190 BCE, but the last version of the city before the rise of the Greek polis was constructed and demolished before 950 BCE, and that’s the time in which I plan to set the fifth book in my series, Ilion.
So the timeline for my books goes something like this:
Receiver of Many and Destroyer of Light: ~1200 or 1150 BCE, about a century after the Bronze Age Collapse and well into the Greek Dark Ages.
The Good Counselor: set 75-77 years after the events of Receiver of Many and Destroyer of Light
The Ineffable Seeds: set 100 years after Destroyer of Light
Ilion: about 200 years after Destroyer of Light, circa 950 BCE
The rest of the series’s timelines will be marked fairly easily by events happening in historical Ancient Greece and later historical Ancient Rome.
Before I write Ilion though, I might take an interlude between the first four books and the last four books to write Titanomachy, because there’s going to be a lot of thematic through lines and overarching plot resolvement between Titanomachy and Ilion.
Titanomachy of course taking place about 40,000 years before the events of Receiver of Many, sometime in the late Paleolithic.
Edit: Bear with me if I got any of those dates wrong as I’m recovering from (another!) cold, and am under the influence of lack of oxygen and cold medicine.
