When Aphrodite is humiliated by Hephaestus, she plots revenge. She curses his beloved island Lemnos, turning love into loathing and unleashing a reckoning of betrayal, bloodshed, and for Hypsipyle, an impossible choice between opposing loyalties.
For readers drawn to retellings of Greek mythology through a feminist lens like those of Pat Barker, Natalie Haynes, or Madeline Miller, Hypsipyle and the Curse of Lemnos is a fierce, lyrical reclamation of one woman’s struggle to shape her destiny following the repercussions of a divine retribution.