In the early pages of “The Voyage Home,” we see Briseis on the shore waving goodbye to our new narrator, Ritsa. Agamemnon and his men are returning home with their spoils — Ritsa among them.

Now that Ms. Barker has published her third book set in this world, “The Voyage Home” (Doubleday, 288 pages, $29), such novels strain the bookstore shelves, many of them “feminist retellings ...