Drawing upon all available ancient sources, The Heracliad delivers the only complete and definitive account of the man one scholar described as having "the potential to shatter the bonds of Greek religion."
Literary, historical, mythopoeian--this sweeping novel of mythic history may also be the most ambitious mythological synthesis since Boccaccio's Genealogy of the Pagan Gods, combining hundreds of myths intersecting the life of Heracles, from the Creation to the end of the Heroic Age, into that single narrative the ancient Greeks believed it to be.
