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Theseus and the Minotaur

1986
Brave Theseus sails to the island of Crete to confront the Minotaur, the horrible monster to whom Athenian youth are sacrificed every nine years.

The Trojan horse

1985
Recounts how the Greeks won the Trojan War by the subterfuge of the wooden horse.

Odysseus and the enchanters

1985
Recounts the adventures of Odysseus as he encounters Circe, the Sirens, and other dangers on his long voyage home from the Trojan War.

The Calydonian boar

1989
Recounts the myth of the monster created by Artemis and slain by Meleager and Atalanta.

The Trojan horse

the fall of Troy : a Greek legend
2007
A graphic novel depicting how the Greeks used a wooden horse to win the ten-year-long Trojan War.

Starcrossed

2011
When shy sixteen-year-old Helen Hamilton starts having vivid dreams about three ancient, hideous women and suddenly tries to kill a new student at her Nantucket high school, she discovers that she is playing out some version of an old tale involving Helen of Troy, the Three Furies, and a mythic battle.

Dreamless

a Starcrossed novel
2012
With help from her new friend Orion, seventeen-year-old Helen Hamilton descends into the Underworld in search of a way to break the Furies' blood curse and prevent the start of another Trojan War.

The king has horse's ears

1988
Only the king and his barber know that the king has horse's ears, until the secret gets outs just in time for the king's wedding day.

Jason and the golden fleece

2009
A graphic novel adaptation of the myth of "Jason and the Golden Fleece" in which Jason sets out in search of the world's greatest treasure in order to claim his right to the throne.

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