RU, UA. Novel, 2011.

Heroic mythological fantasy; Ancient Greece.

It is a heroic epic fantasy novel based on Ancient Greece mythology. The first book is completely translated into English and edited. The second book is also completely translated into English, but it’s editing is in progress.

The novel is based on true Ancient Greece mythology, not on modern literary or cinema interpretations. The main character of both books of the novel is Amphitryon, the grandson of legendary Ancient Greece hero Perseus, and a future father of another great Ancient Greece hero Hercules.

In the first book Amphitryon tries to help his grandfather Perseus in his cruel war against Perseus’s brother, a junior god Dionysus. Many people of Ancient Greece, women especially, become mad and dangerous because of Dionysus cult. Dionysus tries to enlarge his own cult to become an Olympic God. Perseus and his little army fights against Dionysus’s followers: satyrs, centaurs, maenads and some priests. A reader together Perseus’s grandson gets to know many secrets of Perseus family: about Perseus childhood, youth, fighting against Medusa Gorgon and etc.; about Perseus wife Andromeda, about grandfather’s madness...

Young Amphitryon recognized about conspiracy against his grandfather Perseus. Amphitryon and two his friends try to warn Perseus, but after many dangerous adventures all of them including Perseus and his warriors fall into Dionysus’s magic time-trap. The reality was changed, and now the cult of Dionysus became official in all Greece. So, Perseus changes his tactics, now he ignores Dionysus and his followers. But Dionysus needs Perseus as his greatest enemy to finish his way to Olympus. He needs a great final battle to become an Olympic God. Dionysus meets Perseus and provokes him to fight. Perseus kills Dionysus. But it was a part of Dionysus cunning plan. He needs to die for resurrection as a new powerful god. Dionysus resurrects and became an Olympic God.

In the end of the first book of the novel Perseus dies together his wife Andromeda, and both of them ascend to the sky to become a Constellation of Perseus and Andromeda.

Published 2011 (Russia).

The novel “Perseus’s Grandson” by H. L. Oldie received the National Award of Ukraine in the field of fantastic literature as The Best Novel of 2012; Kiev, Ukraine, 2013. The novel also received the "Ursa Major" Great Prize at the "Aju-Dag Constellation Convention"; Crimea, Ukraine, 2012.