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Authors: Barry Unsworth

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Selected Bibliography

Lord William Taylour,
The Mycenaeans

John Chadwick,
The Mycenaean World

A. J. B. Wace,
Mycenae

Michael Wood,
In Search of the Trojan War

James Hall,
Dictionary of Subjects and Symbols in Art

Andrew Dalby,
Siren Feasts

G. S. Kirk, The Nature of Greek Myths

Robert Graves,
The Greek Myths

Edward Tripp,
Dictionary of Classical Mythology

Racine,
Iphigénie

Euripides,
Iphigeneia in Aulis

Aeschylus,
The Oresteia
(translated, with an introductory essay, by Robert Fagles)

Homer,
The Iliad

M. P. Nilsson, Minoan-Mycenaean Religion

Walter Burkert,
Greek Religion

Hugh Lloyd-Jones, “Artemis and Iphigeneia” (
Journal
of
Hellenic Studies, 1983)

E. O. James, The Ancient Gods

M. I. Finley,
The World of Odysseus

A NOTE ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Barry Unsworth won the Booker Prize in 1992 for
Sacred Hunger
; his next novel,
Morality Play
, was a Booker nominee and a bestseller in both the United States and Great Britain. His other novels include
After Hannibal
,
The Hide
, and
Pascali's Island
, which was also short-listed for the Booker Prize and was made into a feature film. He held the position of visiting fellow at the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop, and lives in Umbria with his wife.

ALSO BY BARRY UNSWORTH

The Partnership

The Greeks Have a Word for It

The Hide

Mooncranker's Gift

The Big Day

Pascali's Island
 (published in the United States
under the title
The Idol Hunter
)

The Rage of the Vulture

Stone Virgin

Sugar and Rum

Sacred Hunger

Morality Play

After Hannibal

Losing Nelson

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This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters,
businesses, organizations, places, events, and
incidents either are the product of the author's
imagination or are used fictitiously. Any
resemblance to actual persons, living or dead,
events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Unsworth, Barry, 1930– The songs of the kings: a novel / Barry Unsworth. —1st ed. in the United States of America p. cm. 1. Iphigenia (Greek mythology)—Fiction. 2. Agamemnon (Greek mythology)—Fiction. 3. Greece—History—To 146 B.C.—Fiction. 4. Trojan War—Fiction. I. Title. PR6071.N8 S'.914—dc21 2002066845

Copyright © 2003 by Barry Unsworth

All Rights Reserved.

April 2003

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ALSO BY
BARRY UNSWORTH

“Unsworth is one of the best historical novelists on either side of the Atlantic…his vast knowledge of 18th-century social and material conditions creates a rich and strange rendering of daily life that's utterly persuasive.” —
The New York Times Book Review

“Told with bite and freshness…Unsworth gives his figures glittering definition, and then leaves them open and undefined.” —
The Boston Globe

“[Unsworth's] sentences recall the sharp detail, moral sensitivity and ready wit of Charles Dickens. But his sense of the lumbering, uneven gait of social progress is more sophisticated, more tempered, one might say, by history.” —
The Washington Post

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