The Stolen Goddess — Richard L. Purtill

Weaving from the same magic cloth that endeared the late Thomas Burnett Swann to his myriad fantasy readers, Richard Purtill again explores the wonders of pre-Grecian Kaphtu in this unusual flight of the imagination.

This is the story of Ducalion of strange parentage and of his initiation into the bull dances and mystic rites of a lost civilization and the intrigues of a court where gods and half-gods were real powers to be reckoned with. This is the story of the quest which was set upon him by Apollo himself, and of a descent into the fabled regions of darkness and shadow where the lord of the deathlands had taken the daughter of a jealous goddess.