Jocasta: Wife and Mother

Jocasta: Wife and Mother
Brian Aldiss

A Theban adventure from the master of Science-Fiction, here proving himself adept at imagining historical worlds. Part of the Brian Aldiss Collection.In Jocasta, Aldiss brings vividly to life the ancient world of dreaming Thebes: a world of sun-drenched landscapes, golden dust, sphynxes, Furies, hermaphroditic philosophers, ghostly apparitions and ambivalent gods. Jocasta is also a strikingly effective contemplation of an older world order where the human mind is still struggling to understand itself and the nature of the world around it.

JOCASTA: WIFE AND MOTHER

Brian Aldiss

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Dedication (#ub5ca876c-40bb-56b3-b791-4a6c4985cb93)

For JASON

my Anglo-Greek grandson

with

hopes for his new life

and for his generation

She was not unprincipled. In many respects

she was a ‘Good Woman’. But love and lust

silenced her. She could have spoken.

She did not speak. So the trap was sprung.

From then on, decline was inevitable

and a kingdom was lost.

We all face similar crises

wherein we are made or broken.

Table of Contents

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Title Page (#ud6ade12a-975c-5834-9eac-adbab66a4f85)

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Dedication (#ufe8098a3-7554-5e3a-95ca-3dbf2d9720c5)

Epigraph (#uac2dd40b-9a43-5a38-a62c-56afd5e85094)

Jocasta (#u354358aa-2938-5f18-9914-95b85d0cc9ed)

Chapter 1 (#u3c192b6e-75eb-57f8-9c1d-92bf5d50539a)

Chapter 2 (#u19166f46-f935-5a6d-862f-e09ad843e047)

Chapter 3 (#u2b2967a5-05a8-53c9-8bd5-1f52852385e2)

Chapter 4 (#ud9c37234-2398-5351-9d6c-79430ee7d1cb)

Chapter 5 (#u58e9a102-a180-5caf-b245-2991532a7663)

Chapter 6 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 7 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 8 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 9 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 10 (#litres_trial_promo)