This novel is a true literary masterpiece. The complex, filled with agonizing questions, relationships within a family — with no small boiling over of passions, the open clash of remarkable, strong characters — where genuine feelings are forced to fight against conventions, and the fate of an individual is subordinated to the course of history — literally captivates from the very first pages. Against the backdrop of idyllic nature (the action takes place in Ancient Greece), a real drama unfolds, whose resolution grows near with the fateful inevitability of an ancient myth.