MEMBRICUS: companion and former tutor to BRUTUS, Membricus is a visionary and a seer.
MERIAM: a midwife on the island of NAXOS.
MESOPOTAMA: Dorian city on the River ACHERON on the west coast of Greece. Ruled by PANDRASUS.
MINOANS: people of the Minoan culture on CRETE, centring on the city of Knossos.
MISTRESS OF THE LABYRINTH: the High Priestess of the LABYRINTH, keeper of its secrets.
MOTHER: LLANGARLIA is a matriarchal society. Each tribe, or House, is led by its senior Mother. Each year at the time of the SLAUGHTER FESTIVAL, the Mothers attend an Assembly on Tot Hill within the VEILED HILLS to discuss any problems that affect Llangarlian society.
MYCENAEANS: Greeks of the proud Mycenaean culture belonging to the east coast and Peloponnese of the Greek mainland. The culture centred on the city of Mycenae and reached its height just before the CATASTROPHE of the late Bronze Age.
NAXOS: island 175 km (108 miles) to the north of CRETE in the eastern Mediterranean, and 40 km (25 miles) to the north of THERA.
NICHORIA: a city on the western coast of the Greek Peloponnese. It is ruled by PODARCES.
OG: the stag, forest god of LLANGARLIA, mate of MAG. In later ages he was known as Cernunnos, later still as Herne, and in medieval times as the Green Man.
PANDRASUS: king of the Dorians in MESOPOTAMA. Father of CORNELIA.
PELOPAN: husband to AETHYLLA.
PERIOPIS: a Trojan woman.
PHILISTINES, ALTARS OF THE: two strange stone pillars on the coast of North Africa.
PILLARS OF HERCULES: now called the Straits of Gibraltar.
PODARCES: king of NICHORIA.
POITERAN: a kingdom in the west of modern France, led by GOFFAR.
SARPEDON: a counsellor to PANDRASUS.
SILVIUS: father to BRUTUS. Silvius died in a hunting accident when, according to gossip, BRUTUS mistakenly shot an arrow into his father’s eye.
SLAUGHTER FESTIVAL: the great autumn festival of LLANGARLIA. It is a trading and festive occasion, although it also marks the annual Assembly of MOTHERS on Tot Hill. The name derives from the fact that, in pre-modern times, most livestock was slaughtered in autumn to prepare for the coming winter.
STONE DANCES: circles of standing stones—stone henges.
TAVIA: nurse and companion to CORNELIA.
THERA: tiny volcanic island some 120 km (75 miles) north of CRETE (almost halfway between CRETE and NAXOS) which exploded in the late Bronze Age, devastating the Aegean world because of the consequent shock blasts, tsunamis, acid rain, ash and gases which obliterated the skies around the globe, and related earthquakes about the Aegean and eastern Mediterranean shorelines. The eruption on Thera was roughly four or five times the intensity of the eruption of Krakatoa in 1883.
THESEUS: son and heir of the Athenian king, he was sent as tribute and sacrifice to CRETE where he was to be fed to the Minotaur ASTERION. But Theseus, aided by his lover ARIADNE, managed to defeat the Minotaur and escape from Crete. Later in life he was the first lover of Helen, whose abduction precipitated the eventual destruction of TROY.
THYMBRAECEUS: father of ASSARACUS.
TOTNES: name of BRUTUS’ nurse and also the name given to BRUTUS’ first landing site on the Dart River in Britain.
TROIA NOVA: literally, “New Troy”.
TROY: the fabulous city of Troy sat on the western shores of ANATOLIA (modern-day Turkey). Paris, son of the Trojan king Priam, stole Helen away from her husband, Menelaus, King of Sparta, precipitating the Trojan war in which the city-states of Greece united against Troy. Although it survived a long Greek siege, Troy was eventually destroyed due to a combination of hubris, the betrayal of the gods, and Greek cunning. Those Trojans who survived the destruction scattered about the lands of the Mediterranean, either as refugees or slaves.
TUENNA: daughter of ERITH.
TURON: a porridge compounded of flour, cheese gratings, eggs and honey. One of the staples of Bronze Age Greek diet.
VEILED HILLS, the: the six sacred hills of LLANGARLIA, clustered above the LLAN RIVER in the area now known as London. The six hills are: Tot Hill (where now stands Westminster); the Llandin, the most sacred of the hills (now called Parliament Hill); Pen Hill; Og’s Hill (Ludgate Hill); Mag’s Hill (Cornhill); and the White Mount (Tower Hill). The hills are intersected by three small rivers which flow into the mighty LLAN: the Magyl (now called the Fleet), the Ty (now the Tyburn), and the Wal (now the Walbrook).
ZEUS: leader of the immortals, first among the Olympian gods.
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Table of Contents
Prologue
Part One
CHAPTER ONE
CHAPTER TWO
CHAPTER THREE
CHAPTER FOUR
CHAPTER FIVE
CHAPTER SIX
CHAPTER SEVEN
CHAPTER EIGHT
CHAPTER NINE
CHAPTER TEN
CHAPTER ELEVEN
CHAPTER TWELVE
CHAPTER THIRTEEN
CHAPTER FOURTEEN
CHAPTER FIFTEEN
CHAPTER SIXTEEN
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
CHAPTER NINETEEN
Part Two
CHAPTER ONE
CHAPTER TWO
CHAPTER THREE
CHAPTER FOUR
CHAPTER FIVE
CHAPTER SIX
CHAPTER SEVEN
CHAPTER EIGHT
CHAPTER NINE
CHAPTER TEN
CHAPTER ELEVEN
CHAPTER TWELVE
Part Three
CHAPTER ONE
CHAPTER TWO
CHAPTER THREE
CHAPTER FOUR
CHAPTER FIVE
CHAPTER SIX
CHAPTER SEVEN
CHAPTER EIGHT
CHAPTER TEN
CHAPTER ELEVEN
CHAPTER TWELVE
CHAPTER THIRTEEN
CHAPTER FOURTEEN
CHAPTER FIFTEEN
CHAPTER SIXTEEN
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
Part Four
CHAPTER ONE
CHAPTER TWO
CHAPTER THREE
CHAPTER FOUR
CHAPTER FIVE
CHAPTER SIX
CHAPTER SEVEN
CHAPTER EIGHT
CHAPTER NINE
CHAPTER TEN
CHAPTER ELEVEN
CHAPTER TWELVE
CHAPTER THIRTEEN
CHAPTER FOURTEEN
CHAPTER FIFTEEN
Part Five
CHAPTER ONE
CHAPTER TWO
CHAPTER THREE
CHAPTER FOUR
CHAPTER FIVE
CHAPTER SIX
CHAPTER SEVEN
CHAPTER EIGHT
CHAPTER NINE
CHAPTER TEN
CHAPTER ELEVEN
CHAPTER TWELVE
CHAPTER THIRTEEN
CHAPTER FOURTEEN
CHAPTER FIFTEEN
CHAPTER SIXTEEN
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
CHAPTER NINETEEN
CHAPTER TWENTY
CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE
CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO
CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE
Part Six
CHAPTER ONE
CHAPTER TWO
CHAPTER THREE
CHAPTER FOUR
CHAPTER FIVE
CHAPTER SIX
CHAPTER SEVEN
CHAPTER EIGHT
CHAPTER NINE
CHAPTER TEN
CHAPTER ELEVEN
CHAPTER TWELVE
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