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Aphrodite, November 2025
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Herc, September 2023
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HERC
By: Phoenicia Rogerson

Hanover Square Press
September 2023
On Sale: September 5, 2023
384 pages
ISBN: 1335016775
EAN: 9781335016775
Kindle: B0BT83QZBB
Hardcover / e-Book
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LGBTQ | Fantasy

A queer revisionist retelling of the story of Hercules, for fans of The Song of Achilles, A Thousand Ships and Ariadne.

This should be the story of Hercules: his twelve labours, his endless adventures… everyone’s favorite hero, right?

Well, it’s not.

This is the story of everyone else:

• Alcmene: Herc’s mother (She has knives everywhere)
• Hylas: Herc’s first friend (They were more than friends)
• Megara: Herc’s wife (She’ll tell you about their marriage)
• Eurystheus: Oversaw Herc’s labours (He never asked for the job)
• His friends, his enemies, his wives, his children, his lovers, his rivals, his gods, his victims

It’s time to hear their stories.

Told with humour and heart, Herc gives voice to the silenced characters, in this feminist, queer (and sometimes shocking) retelling of classic Hercules myth.