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“He is a weapon, a killer. Do not forget it. You can use a spear as a walking stick, but that will not change its nature.”

Songs of Achilles by Madeline Miller

April 18, 2022 by ardaigle Leave a Comment

This is the love story of Achilles, the fighting demigod, and Patroclus, the exiled, his confidant, lover, and closest companion. Patroclus is our narrator, and through his eyes, we see Achilles grow from a smirking boy to the greatest warrior the Greeks have ever seen. It’s equal parts classic mythology with a Romeo and Juliet twist as we watch these star-crossed lovers march to the beat of destiny. Taking on the Iliad is a bold move, and Miller really gives it her all. This one […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction Tagged With: historical fiction, madeline miller, mythology, song of achilles, The Iliad

ardaigle's CBR14 Review No:15 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction · Tags: historical fiction, madeline miller, mythology, song of achilles, The Iliad ·
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“Children long to be eaten. Everyone knows that.”

XO Orpheus: 50 New Myths by Kate Bernheimer (editor)

April 18, 2022 by andtheIToldYouSos 2 Comments

Am I typing this up while wearing a tee featuring the cover of the d’Aulaires’ Book of Greek Myths? YOU KNOW IT! That strange tome of simplified myth and ultra-bright illustration cracked open a need in me when I was very young. I re-read that book countless times, and used it as the entry point into the larger world of mythology. Combined with a Catholic upbringing that was far more focused on the deaths of the saints than on anything else, you could saw I […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, History, Science Fiction, Short Stories, Speculative Fiction Tagged With: adaptation, aimee bender, anansi, aztec mythology, galatea, greek mythology, Kate Bernheimer (editor), Literature, madline miller, Maile Meloy, My Mother She Killed Me My Father He Ate Me, mythology, norse mythology, orpheus, Persian mythology, Religion, retelling, ron currie jr, sheila heti, sigrid nunez, The Iliad, Victor LaValle

andtheIToldYouSos's CBR14 Review No:25 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, History, Science Fiction, Short Stories, Speculative Fiction · Tags: adaptation, aimee bender, anansi, aztec mythology, galatea, greek mythology, Kate Bernheimer (editor), Literature, madline miller, Maile Meloy, My Mother She Killed Me My Father He Ate Me, mythology, norse mythology, orpheus, Persian mythology, Religion, retelling, ron currie jr, sheila heti, sigrid nunez, The Iliad, Victor LaValle ·
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A tale as old as time

The Women of Troy: A Novel by Pat Barker

March 9, 2022 by ElCicco Leave a Comment

The Women of Troy is the follow up to Pat Barker’s The Silence of the Girls, her imagining of the Trojan War/Iliad from the point of view of the women and girls who saw their city fall and became enslaved to their enemies. The focal point remains Briseis, pregnant with Achilles’ child, with a few chapters from the view of Achilles’ teenaged son Pyrrhus. This novel finds its characters stuck in a sort of limbo; the war is over, the Greeks victorious but unable to […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: cbr14, ElCicco, Fiction, Pat Barker, The Iliad, The Women of Troy

ElCicco's CBR14 Review No:13 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: cbr14, ElCicco, Fiction, Pat Barker, The Iliad, The Women of Troy ·
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Cover of Penguin Classics edition of The Iliad

Repetitive yet hypnotic, a grand tragedy

The Iliad by Homer

January 30, 2022 by Dinah Lord Leave a Comment

“The wrath of Achilles is my theme, that fatal wrath which, in fulfilment of the will of Zeus, brought the Achaeans so much suffering and sent the gallant souls of many noblemen to Hades, leaving their bodies as carrion for the dogs and passing birds.” So begins E. V. Rieu’s translation (for Penguin Classics in 1950) of Homer’s Iliad, a prose translation of Greek hexameter verse, telling of the story of an incident, over only a few weeks, in the interminable ten-year Trojan war. We […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Poetry Tagged With: classics, Homer, literature in translation, The Iliad

Dinah Lord's CBR14 Review No:3 · Genres: Fiction, Poetry · Tags: classics, Homer, literature in translation, The Iliad ·
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“We need new songs.”

The Silence of the Girls: A Novel by Pat Barker

October 31, 2020 by ElCicco 1 Comment

I recently reviewed Madeline Miller’s The Song of Achilles for CBR12 bingo, and I referred to it as a gateway into a genre I call “reimagined classics” or “classics fanfic”. The Silence of the Girls is yet another outstanding addition to this genre and it happens to overlap with The Song of Achilles, presenting several main characters and incidents from The Iliad from a very different perspective. Pat Barker imagines for us the life of Briseis, a Trojan princess who becomes Achilles’ slave. Through the […]

Filed Under: Fanfiction, Fiction Tagged With: cbr12, classics, ElCicco, fanfic, Fiction, Pat Barker, ReadWomen, The Iliad, The Silence of the Girls

ElCicco's CBR12 Review No:46 · Genres: Fanfiction, Fiction · Tags: cbr12, classics, ElCicco, fanfic, Fiction, Pat Barker, ReadWomen, The Iliad, The Silence of the Girls ·
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I came for the fighting, but stayed for the sweet, sweet love

The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller

April 8, 2019 by ingres77 3 Comments

I’m closer to 40 than I am 30, and I’ve never read The Iliad. I did, however, read The Odyssey in middle school, and quite liked it – though poetry has never been my thing, and the archaic formatting of the translation I read bothered me. Still. It was a good story, and I was in the florescence of my love for heroic fantasy, so The Odyssey kind of felt like the genesis for the types of stories I was reading at the time. So […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, History Tagged With: classical Greece, greek mythology, Homer, madeline miller, The Iliad, the song of achilles

ingres77's CBR11 Review No:6 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, History · Tags: classical Greece, greek mythology, Homer, madeline miller, The Iliad, the song of achilles ·
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