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For the winner a novel of Jason and the Argonauts

Atalanta, the abandoned daughter of the king of Pagasae, disguises herself as a man to win a place on the journey to search for the Golden Fleece, but once she is discovered, she is left in the land of Colchis and forced to make a terrible choice.

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Main Author: Hauser, Emily (Fiction writer) (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Pegasus Books, 2017.
Edition:First Pegasus Books hardcover edition.
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Atalanta > (Greek mythological character) > Fiction.
Jason > (Mythological character) > Fiction.
Impostors and imposture > Fiction.
Argonauts (Greek mythology) > Fiction.
Mythology, Greek > Fiction.
Historical fiction.
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Summary:Atalanta, the abandoned daughter of the king of Pagasae, disguises herself as a man to win a place on the journey to search for the Golden Fleece, but once she is discovered, she is left in the land of Colchis and forced to make a terrible choice.
Physical Description:x, 349 pages : illustration, map ; 24 cm
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-336).
ISBN:168177545X
9781681775456
Author Notes:Emily Hauser studied Classics at Cambridge, where she was taught by Mary Beard. She then went to Harvard as a Fulbright Scholar and now teaches at Yale, where she is completing her PhD in Classics. She has won several prizes for her academic work, including the University of Cambridge Chancellor's Medal and the Alice Derby Lang Essay Prize at Yale. For the Most Beautiful --the first book in the Golden Apple trilogy--is her debut novel. She lives in New Haven, Connecticut.


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