The myth of the exploits of Hercules is known to everyone from childhood. But not everyone knows that the interests of the Olympic Family, the titans who were overthrown in Tartarus, and many people intersected on the young Hercules - as a result of which the hero and his twin brother Iphicles became hostages of other people's intrigues from childhood. And of course, no one has heard of the sinister attacks of madness to which the great Hercules is subject, of the altars of the Obsessed with Tartarus, on which the blood of human victims smokes, and of the terrible, deadly secret that Hercules' earthly father, Amphitryon, the grandson of Perseus, is forced to keep until death itself and even after it ... Ancient Greece appears before the reader as visible and genuine, familiar and original. The skill of the authors weaves together the fate of mythological characters, filling them with new life. The novels "The Hero Must Be Alone" and "Odysseus, Son of Laertes", which make up the "Achaean Cycle", have long deserved not only the admiration of readers, but also became the subject of attention of philologists and literary critics, material for a number of scientific works.
