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"Goddess for a Day" is a short story by Harry Turtledove, published in Chicks in Chainmail, edited by Esther Friesner, Baen 1995; reprinted in the omnibus Chicks Ahoy!, 2010; and Counting Up, Counting Down, Del Rey, 2002. It can also be read on Baen's website. It is a historical fiction which introduces fantasy elements in the later part.

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rdf:type	Short Story
rdfs:label	Goddess for a Day
rdfs:comment	"Goddess for a Day" is a short story by Harry Turtledove, published in Chicks in Chainmail, edited by Esther Friesner, Baen 1995; reprinted in the omnibus Chicks Ahoy!, 2010; and Counting Up, Counting Down, Del Rey, 2002. It can also be read on Baen's website. It is a historical fiction which introduces fantasy elements in the later part.
dcterms:subject	Counting Up, Counting Down Short Stories Fantasy Works Set Before the Common Era Chicks Books Works Set in Greece Goddess for a Day 1995 Works
Collected	Counting Up, Counting Down
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pub date	1995(xsd:integer)
First Appearance	Chicks in Chainmail
Genre	Historical fantasy
ImageSize	180(xsd:integer)
Author	Harry Turtledove
Publisher	Baen, later Del Rey
abstract	"Goddess for a Day" is a short story by Harry Turtledove, published in Chicks in Chainmail, edited by Esther Friesner, Baen 1995; reprinted in the omnibus Chicks Ahoy!, 2010; and Counting Up, Counting Down, Del Rey, 2002. It can also be read on Baen's website. It is a historical fiction which introduces fantasy elements in the later part. The story is based on a 6th-century-BC event (sometimes dated 556 BC) reported by Herodotus. Peisistratos, an exiled tyrant of Athens, retakes the city through an act of trickery. He claims that the goddess Athena has approved of his rule, and to prove it, enters the city with a young woman named Phye, disguised as Athena. Phye regrets her decision. The armor is uncomfortable and she finds Peisistratos distasteful. Nonetheless, she plays out the ruse to the end. She's put up at a shrine to Athena and Poseidon. Here, her day takes an unusual turn when she meets a satyr named Marsyas, who also mistakes her for the goddess.

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