ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Many thanks to Lara Perkins, without whose expert guidance and encouragement I never would have attempted this project. Thanks also to Barbara Tsakirgis of the Departments of Classical Studies and Art History at Vanderbilt University, who read an early draft of this manuscript and corrected errors; any that have crept in since that reading are my responsibility. And as always, my love and thanks to Greg.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Tracy Barrett has loved Greek mythology ever since she first read D’Aulaire’s Book of Greek Myths. In college she majored in Classics with a specialty in ancient Greek art and architecture, and she has made many trips to Italy, Greece, North Africa, and Turkey to visit museums and ancient ruins. Five of her more than twenty books relate to the ancient Classical world: Dark of the Moon (a retelling of the myth of the Minotaur), King of Ithaka (Homer’s Odyssey as seen by Odysseus’s son, Telemachos), the time-travel novel On Etruscan Time, the nonfiction The Ancient Greek World (co-authored with Jennifer Roberts), and now The Song of Orpheus.
She lives in Nashville, Tennessee (the home of the world’s most complete full-scale replica of the Parthenon) with her husband and her dog, Pericles.
ALSO BY TRACY BARRETT
Anna of Byzantium
On Etruscan Time
The Sherlock Files:
Book 1: The 100-Year-Old Secret
Book 2: The Beast of Blackslope
Book 3: The Case that Time Forgot
Book 4: The Missing Heir
King of Ithaka
Dark of the Moon
The Ancient Greek World (with Jennifer Roberts)
For more books and more information, see Tracy Barrett’s web site. To contact the author, go to http://www.tracybarrett.com/contact.htm.
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