Ladies: Retold Tales of Goddesses and Heroines - Softcover

Vallejo, Boris; Vallejo, Doris

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1560252162 ISBN 13: 9781560252160

Publisher: Thunder's Mouth Press, 1999

Synopsis

Celebrates the classic tales of goddesses and heroines including Medea who helped Jason capture the golden fleece, and Persephone who was kidnapped by Pluto and forced to live with him in the underworld

About this title

Synopsis:

In Ladies' ten signature paintings and numerous drawings, Boris Vallejo depicts the magic time when goddesses roamed the earth; they are the perfect accompaniment to Doris Vallejo's poetic and chilling retelling of ten classic tales. This is myth transfigured by a modern sensibility: retelling mythic tales from the points of view of the goddesses, heroines, sorceresses, princesses, wives, and daughters. Readers see Persephone, condemned by a god's adoration to live six months of each year in the kingdom of death; the Gorgon, a great beauty transformed into monstrosity by her own longing to be loved; Apollo's mortal bride, Coronis, left behind each time her godly husband returned to the heavens; and Pandora, who discovered knowledge no mortal was meant to have and paid the price.

About the Author:

Boris Vallejo is one of the world's top fantasy artists, best known as the visual creator of Conan the Barbarian. He lives in Allentown, PA. Doris Vallejo is the author of Windsound and The Boy Who Saved the Stars.

About this edition

• Publisher: Thunder's Mouth Press
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 1560252162
• ISBN 13: 9781560252160
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192