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[High School Educator] This is a book about a strong woman written from a woman's perspective in an historical context - just what we need as an intelligent role model and a wonderful addition to our literature and social studies programs.

[Consultant: college teaching programs] This is an unabashed fan letter. I spent the weekend with According to Helen and emerged with.well, enormous respect and admiration for you as an author, but that's for starters! Your concept is intriguing as is the imagination with which you carry it though, but in addition all the careful plotting and planning and incisive writing.your characters are believable, human beings - lovable and other wise.

[Scholars] The attention to the detail of setting and other aspects of Bronze Age Aegean culture are especially impressive. But most of all the characters are engaging and the story captivating." - Jean Marty. Research Professor of Classics. University of North Carolina - Asheville.

It is a novel based on archaeology. As such it can be regarded as an hypothesis, an imaginative arrangement of the material at hand now, and the current interpretations of that material. The writing rings true." Robert L. Horn, professor of Philosophy, Emeritus, Earlham College.

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