The Women of Artemis
- Frances Butt

- Feb 10, 2025
- 1 min read
Updated: May 13

I needed to bring all the drama for this fantastic telling by classics novelist Hannah Lynn of the rise of the Amazons, those fearsome women of Greek myth. Women of all ages to voice, and I chose regional southern and northern British accents to reflect the south-to-north scope from Thrace to Anatolia (Greece and Turkey today), from the Adriatic to the Black Sea.
Married at fourteen, Otrera learns from her abusive husband that love is a dream and a woman's lot is to submit.. until... Otrera finally fights back, gathering other brave women around her and taking no prisoners. She is willing to risk death, if it means building a new life with other women far from the reaches of their abusers. But a community and army of women inevitably has enemies... Listen here on Audible



