Diomedes in Kyprios

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>This is a historically-based novel with authentic mythic & fictional characters interacting across the extraordinary panorama after the Fall of Troy and the Hittite Empire during the </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Bronze Age Collapse</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>. Diomedes leads his Akhaians (Achaeans) to the Isle of Kyprios (now Cyprus) to meet his lost love Lieia the ex-queen of the Hittites. Kyprios is where the </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Peoples of the Sea</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> have gathered before their final assaults on Canaan and Aigyptos (Egypt). But Diomedes unexpectedly meets the avatar of the Goddess Aphrodite at her Temple in Paphos the city of her birth. Will she take him from Lieia? Will his wanderings end or will he head back to sea to seek redemption from the past in the further unknown? Aphrodite must also deal with the beautiful impetuous youth Adonis who swears he would die for her.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The Bronze Age Collapse was a time of such chaos that empires fell royalty was overthrown palaces and temples were destroyed and the hierarchy of the gods was doubted yet people's self-reliance emerged like never before and the ancient Great Goddess of the Cycles of Time who had been suppressed began to regain her former dominance. </span></p><p></p>