The books of Baukis

In the house of the prominent Athenian Peteos, a nervous bustle had been reigning for days. The hour that his beautiful young wife Leda would provide a successor was drawing ever closer… Peteos has great plans for his son, but these mean nothing in the eyes of the mighty supreme goddess Hera. She cherishes her own plans… not for a son, but for a daughter. When Peteos unknowingly disrupts Hera's dream, he drags his family down into the abyss of her vengeance. The little girl Baukis, once Hera's chosen mortal, can do nothing against the wrath of the heavenly queen. Even the fearsome goddesses of hunting and battle, Artemis and Athena, cannot protect her for long. Will the goddess of love, eternally smiling Aphrodite, succeed where they failed? Inge Scheynen (°1969) received the Children's and Youth Jury Prize in 2003 for her first children's book, Kleine Bobo. Inge is a historian by training and fascinated by ancient Greece. Inspired by the myth of Philemon and Baukis, she wrote a historical fantasy novel in which Antiquity comes to life. Discover the colorful civilizations of Athens and Sparta, get to know the gods and experience the golden age of Pericles as if you were there yourself.