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ⓘ The Sword is Forged is a 1983 historical fiction novel by Evangeline Walton. It is based on the story of and the Amazon queen from Greek mytholo .. The Sword is Forged is a 1983 historical fiction novel by Evangeline Walton. It is based on the story of Theseus and the Amazon queen Antiope from Greek mythology. 1. Plot. The Amazon queen Antiope is captured by Theseus and brought back to Athens to become his bride. They fall in love and she bears him a son, Hippolytus, but soon the Amazons besiege Athens to reclaim their queen. 2. Development and publication. According to Douglas A. Anderson, Walton wrote a trilogy of novels about Theseus in the mid-1940s. She completely rewrote all three books in the mid-1950s, but put them aside when Mary Renault published her own Theseus novels, 1958 and later The Bull from the Sea 1962. After the success of the Ballantine editions of her Mabinogion tetralogy in the 1970s, Walton visited Greece and started reworking her own Theseus trilogy. The first volume was published as The Sword is Forged in 1983. Walton died in 1996, and the other two installments remain unpublished. 3. Themes. In The Encyclopedia of Fantasy, John Clute and John Grant cite The Sword is Forged as an example of the use of the Amazon in as "an icon of female autonomy". They go on to explain that novel uses Theseus to present "a patriarchal challenge to the Amazon in terms which allow some inspired debate". Kirkus Reviews suggests that the takeaway theme of the novel is that "love must always mean bondage for women". 4. Reception. Kirkus Reviews called The Sword is Forged "an earnest, hard-working, but spindly reconstruction" of the Theseus myth, noting that "Antiope has a certain pep in the first half here. But the Amazons emerge as a kind of terrorist branch of NOW, and Antiopes decline into All-for-Love milque- toastery is truly tedious." Don DAmmassa wrote in his Encyclopedia of Fantasy and Horror Fiction that the novel is "an entertaining story but fails to measure up to Welsh stories". Mary Renault described The Sword is Forged as "a keen exploration of Greek myth", and Poul Anderson wrote that Waltons "scholarship and realistic detail never get in the way of an exciting and moving story." Praising Waltons combination of feminism and romantic love, called the novel "the best fictional depiction of the Amazons that Ive ever encountered". The novel was nominated for a 1984 Locus Award, but lost to The Mists of Avalon by . Bradley had previously called Waltons novel "a book of wonderful humanity and great classic force." 9780285626393 - Sword is Forged by Walton, Evangeline. Covers bumped, and paper yellowing. Otherwise a clean unmarked copy. Price on dust-wrapper unclipped. Souvenir Press Ltd, 1984. Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Sword is Forged. Walton, Evangeline. Published by Souvenir Press Ltd, Great Britain (1984) Used - Hardcover Condition: Very Good + Quantity available: 1. Book is in Very Good + condition. Boards have a tiny bit of shelf wear. Fore edges have a small amount of wear. Interior is clean and legible. Not remaindered. Dust Jacket is in Very Good + condition. Tiny bit of shelf wear/rub. Tiniest bit of wear along the edges. Not price clipped. Dust Jacket is covered by Mylar wrapper. Thanks and Enjoy. All-ways well boxed, All-ways fast service. Thanks. Souvenir Press Ltd, Great Britain, 1984. Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good +. First Edition. Sword is Forged. Walton, Evangeline. Published by Souvenir Press Ltd (1984) Used - Hardcover Condition: Good. Quantity available: 1. The book has been read but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact and the cover is intact. Some minor wear to the spine. Souvenir Press Ltd, 1984. Hardback. Condition: Good. THE SWORD IS FORGED. Walton, Evangeline. Published by Souvenir Press., London: (1984) Used - Hardcover. Quantity available: 1. HC in dust jacket. 1st Printing. A near fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Souvenir Press., London:, 1984. 1st UK edition. THE SWORD IS FORGED. Walton, Evangeline. Published by Souvenir Press, London (1984) New - Hardcover Condition: Very Good ++ Quantity available: 1. Price not clipped. Souvenir Press, London, 1984. Cloth. Condition: Very Good ++. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good ++. First U.K. Edition. The Sword is Forged. Walton, Evangeline. Published by Souvenir Press, London (1984) Used - Hardcover Condition: Very Good. Quantity available: 1. 348 pp., + 4 blank, illustrated dustwrapper. Age toning/browning of the page edges and onto the pages. Novel reconstructing the Greek legend of 'Theseus, King of Athens, and the Amazon Queen Antiope'. Size: 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Val Sassoon -- Dustwrapper. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Fiction; ISBN: 0285626396. ISBN/EAN: 9780285626393. Inventory No: 0206547. Souvenir Press, London, 1984. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Val Sassoon - - Dustwrapper (illustrator). First Edition. THE SWORD IS FORGED. An earnest, hard-working, but spindly reconstruction of the Greek myth concerning Theseus' capture of his bride: Hippolyte, Queen of the Amazons. At first, however, the Queen is just plain Antiope--last royal Amazon daughter, raised and coached by her Aunt , War Queen and Deathsinger, while happy Amazon life bubbles about. (Quaffing wine from enemy skulls, charging along on handsome horses, giving away any baby sons to their Hittite allies.) Then, during the visit of Heraldes, Antiope cleaves her first man with an axe, entitling her to copulate--reluctantly-- with a dreary prisoner. And young Theseus, among Herakles' company, returns some time later to capture Antiope--who now bears the Hippolyte title. Antiope and her fellow prisoners fight their fate at first; but soon sex makes love bloom. (Theseus ""was still a child--but he could make a bed a wonderful place to be."") Moreover, a Goddess vision appears and urges Antiope to remain with Theseus, ""to begin a new race"" and ""show the world how to live."" So: culture-shock in Athens ensues--with Antiope trying to liberate those sniveling, enslaved Athenian females with some archery lessons. After the birth of a baby boy (alas), Antiope is cruelly torn when Amazon/Hittite forces begin a siege to defeat Theseus and free their Queen. And finally there are ferocious battles, the death of Amazon comrades, and Antiope's own death at the hands of Molpadia--followed by grief all around and the closing reminder that Love ""must always mean bondage"" for women. Antiope has a certain pep in the first half here: her knee-and-knife work is top-drawer. 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