That the ancient world, as the most classic of the classics, is something that never goes out of style is evident. But currently a suggestive feminine current is responsible for reviving those distant days where the cradle of the West rocked. Between History, archeology and also the necessary mythology to understand beliefs and attitudes, Everything revisited with special taste and capacity. This is how the works of Irene Vallejo but also Madeline miller and arriving at the one mentioned today, Jennifer Saint.
Authors with that horizon in the past not to transform but to complement the vision of antiquity with a fair and necessary focus on the feminine. Because the legacy of the human being is shared and from each scenario presented by the official chronicles you can always pull the thread of the feminine, giving complete direction and meaning to everything.
That is why authors like them are necessary. Specifically, Jennifer has it very fine. Because her books rescue feminist protagonisms, not exclusively feminine ones, to give each person what is theirs and thus adjust the facts to more complex realities.
Top 3 recommended books by Jennifer Saint
Ariadna
A controversial character within extensive Greek mythology. Scholars get involved in giving him different nature from his name to his personality. And then there is Jennifer Saint who rethinks everything to clarify everything. Here she is the one who judges and who decides to take on the world and weather all the adversities... which, however, may end up clarifying those last controversies about her figure today.
Ariadne, princess of Crete, grows up listening to stories of gods and heroes. Beneath the golden palace, however, echoes the hooves of her brother the Minotaur, a monster that demands blood sacrifices. When Theseus, prince of Athens, arrives to defeat the beast, Ariadne sees no threat in its green eyes, but rather an opportunity to escape from it.
The young woman defies the gods, betrays her family and her country, and risks everything for love by helping Theseus kill the Minotaur. But... will that decision ensure a happy ending? And what will happen to Phaedra, her beloved little sister, whom she leaves behind? Hypnotic, dizzying and absolutely moving, Ariadne forges a new epic that gives absolute prominence to the forgotten women of Greek mythology who fight for a better world.
Electra
Beyond recognizing herself as the counterpart to Oedipus, and therefore being in love with her father. What Electra wanted was to discover the murderers of her father. Her revenge was served on her... Jenni also adorns us with her experiences and existential foundation with many other tragic circumstances in a woman marked by the unfortunate.
When Clytemnestra marries Agamemnon, she is unaware of the insidious rumors about her lineage, the House of Atreus. But when, on the eve of the Trojan War, Agamemnon betrays her in the most unthinkable way, Clytemnestra must face the curse that has devastated her family.
In Troy, Princess Cassandra has the gift of prophecy, but she also carries her own curse: no one will ever believe what she sees. When she has a vision of what is going to happen in her beloved city, she is powerless to prevent the coming tragedy.
Electra, the youngest daughter of Clytemnestra and Agamemnon, only wants her beloved father to return home from the war. But will she be able to escape the bloody history of her family or is her destiny also linked to violence?
Atalanta
The path from princess to heroine had to be bravely followed by Atalanta, as always a woman had to do since the world was the world. Nobody expected the girl. But no one could imagine, prejudices aside, that a girl could face any adversity with undeniable possibilities of victory...
When Princess Atalanta is born and her parents discover that she is a girl instead of the son they wanted, they abandon her on the side of a mountain to die. But despite the circumstances, she is a survivor. Raised by a bear under the protective gaze of the goddess Artemis, Atalanta grows free in the wild, with one condition: if she marries, Artemis warns her, she will be her downfall.
Although she loves her beautiful forest home, Atalanta longs for adventure. When Artemis offers her the chance to fight in her name alongside the Argonauts, the fiercest group of warriors the world has ever seen, Atalanta takes it. The Argonauts' mission in their search for the Golden Fleece is full of impossible challenges, but Atalanta proves to be equal to the men she fights.
Finding herself involved in a passionate romance, and ignoring Artemis's warning, she begins to question the goddess's true intentions. Can Atalanta carve out her own place in a male-dominated world, while staying true to her heart?
Full of joy, passion and adventure, Atalanta is the story of a woman who refuses to hold back. Jennifer Saint places Atalanta where she belongs: the pantheon of the greatest heroes of Greek mythology.
