About Melos
Picture Archaic Greece.
A strange and ambivalent time and land. Most of the country is uncivilized, a chain of city-states, yet the isles on the other side of the sea have been colonized. Socrate's great-great-grandfather is not born yet, but art is flourishing and the Odyssey a scholar classic. Many conceptions about Ancient Greece are already true, but much more are not, for the best and the worst.
Melos is a short story (around 11,000 words for 6 endings) about the relationship between two young women in this blooming world, with poetry, paintings and other art forms the ancient Greeks were fond of.
by C####:
Beautiful and poetic. I have yet to find a happy ending and I'm not sure there is one. The two characters were vividly drawn. I liked the opening poem a whole lot.