Editing Goddess for a Day

{{Infobox short story
|author = [[Harry Turtledove]]
|pub_date = 1995
|image = Chicks in Chainmail.jpg
|ImageSize = 180px
|publisher = [[Baen]], later [[Del Rey]]
|genre = Historical [[fantasy]]
|first appearance = Chicks in Chainmail
|collected = [[Counting Up, Counting Down]]}}'''"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 [https://www.baen.com/Chapters/1439133018/1439133018___6.htm 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 (Goddess for a Day)|Peisistratos]], an exiled tyrant of [[Athens (Goddess for a Day)|Athens]], retakes the city through an act of trickery. He claims that the goddess [[Athena (Goddess for a Day)|Athena]] has approved of his rule, and to prove it, enters the city with a young woman named [[Phye (Goddess for a Day)|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 (Goddess for a Day)|satyr]] named [[Marsyas (Goddess for a Day)|Marsyas]], who also mistakes her for the goddess.
==See also==
*"[[The Old Grind]]," [[Laura Frankos]]' contribution to ''Chicks in Chainmail''.
{{Goddess for a Day}}
{{Counting Up, Counting Down}}
[[Category:Goddess for a Day|*]]
[[Category:Short Stories]]
[[Category:Counting Up, Counting Down]]
[[Category:Fantasy]]
[[Category:Short Stories First Published in the "Chicks" Books‎]]
[[Category:1995 Works]]
[[Category:Works Set in Greece]]
[[Category:Works Set Before the Common Era]]