A Spartan's Sorrow (The Grecian Women Trilogy, #2)

by Hannah M. Lynn

We have been fighting the same battle, Clytemnestra, against gods and kings and people with power and privilege. They are so terrified of losing their control over us, that they crush us at the slightest sign of our own independence or happiness. I am on your side, Clytemnestra. I always have been.”

“Gods, not goddesses. Men, not women. Zeus, not Hera,” she said. “This is the way Orestes. Agamemnon, not Clytemnestra.”

“Those two things are not mutually exclusive. Do not insult me by implying the gods are just. Do not pretend to stand on the side of the wronged. Surely, some of the acts that have taken place in this very temple are enough of a testament to that.”

She is not some shadowy, distant figure. She was a real woman.

The goddesses, the mothers, they are the ones we turn to. And yet it is a god’s word that we have to obey, one that tells us that a man must be avenged, but not a woman.”