The opening of the cycle
The Fall and the Fire
Before the heroes, there were the gods — and before the gods, there was the dark. The Fall and the Fire opens the Aetheria cycle with Hesiod's twin foundations: the birth of the cosmos, the rise of Zeus, and the slow inheritance of the world by mortals who would have to learn to live in it. A creation story told without sentiment, and a working life told without illusion — set side by side, the way Hesiod meant them to be read.
Six series, one arc
The Argonautica
A crew of half-gods and exiles sails east for the Golden Fleece, and finds that the cost of the journey is not the voyage but what it asks of them.
The Labours of Heracles
Twelve impossible tasks, one ruined man, and the slow accounting of what strength is for when the gods are watching.
The Iliad
In the tenth year of the war at Troy, a quarrel between two Greeks unmakes an army, and a single act of mercy at the end outweighs everything the spear has done.
The Odyssey
One man, ten years late and presumed dead, takes the long way home through monsters, witches, and the patience of a wife who has not forgotten him.
The Theban Cycle
A king who solves the riddle of his own ruin, a daughter who buries her brother against the law, and a city that pays in generations for one cursed line.
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The sky had a seam, and Kronos found it.
Before the gods, before the count of days, the world was held in the body of his father — and the body of his father was a machine that had forgotten it was running. Kronos felt the seam the way a child feels a loose tooth: a wrongness, an invitation. He took the sickle his mother pressed into his hand, and he cut.
What spilled out was not blood. It was time.
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How Aetheria is made
Aetheria is a retelling of the Greek myths built from the sources up. Every god, mortal, and event traces back to a named ancient text — Hesiod, Homer, the Tragedians, the Hymns — and the connections between them are mapped before a single line of new prose is written.
On top of that foundation sits a contemporary overlay: the old stories told with a sensibility shaped by what we now know about systems, networks, and the machinery beneath the world. The result is faithful to the canon and legible to a modern reader, with an educational layer running quietly underneath so that anyone curious about the source can follow the thread back.
Provisional release window
| Book | Title | Window |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Fall and the Fire | Q4 2026 |
| 2 | TBA — The Argonautica | Q1 2027 |
| 3 | TBA — The Labours of Heracles | Q2 2027 |
| 4 | TBA — The Iliad | Q3 2027 |
| 5 | TBA — The Odyssey | Q4 2027 |
| 6 | TBA — The Theban Cycle | 2028 |
Dates provisional and subject to change. Newsletter subscribers will be told first.
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What readers ask
How is this different from the translations already on my shelf?
Translations give you the ancient text in modern words. Aetheria gives you the stories as continuous prose — characters, motivation, consequence — drawn from the sources but written to be read end-to-end, the way a novel is read. It sits beside a translation, not in place of one.
Are these books for children or adults?
Adults, and older teenagers who like serious fiction. The myths are not softened — there is violence, sex, and moral weight in the originals, and Aetheria keeps faith with that.
Will there be audiobooks?
Yes. Each book in the series will be released in both print and audiobook editions, narrated under Pithos Media's in-house production.
Do I need to know the myths already to follow along?
No. The books are written so a reader meeting these stories for the first time can follow every thread. For readers who already know the myths, the connective tissue — who is whose cousin, which prophecy answers which — is drawn with care.