![]() ![]() ![]() "What's startling about this sharply written, cleverly Seamlessly with incidents from The Iliad, creating a coherent Informed by scholarship, her imagination blends Goddesses who mate with mortals to produce the great warrior-heroes of World that feels realistic and familiar into the ancient one of gods and "A third of the way in, eases us from a naturalistic ![]() Thousands of Greeks but also as a deeply devoted companion and lover.Įcco. Only as the selfish, egotistical hero responsible for the deaths of So Achilles avoids facing Hector on the battlefield), but he strives for Prophecy has dictated that Hector's fall precedes that of Achilles, Motivations and actions: the proud warrior fears his ultimate demise (a With Achilles, the son of a goddess, while humanizing his lover's Patroclus explores his childhood and his relationship The stories told in The Iliad, the two become unlikely companions andĮventually lovers. Hero of the Trojan War, and Patroclus, a gangly exiled prince, is a THE STORY: The relationship between Achilles, the beautiful, doomed ![]() Madeline Miller earned her BA and MA from Brown University in LatinĪnd Ancient Greek and studied at the Yale School of Drama, where sheįocused on adapting classical literature for a modern audience. MLA style: "The Song of Achilles." The Free Library. ![]()
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