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I could recognize him by touch alone, by smell; I would know him blind, by the way his breaths came and his feet struck the earth. I would know him in death, at the end of the world. (p. 134).
Madeline Miller's Song of Achilles is a testament to humanity of the gods – and the godliness of humans. Brilliant and beautiful Achilles is perverted by hubris: he is Aristos Achaion – best of the Greeks – and refused to fight in the Trojan War because Agamemnon stole Briseis, his slave won in the war. Ra ...more
Madeline Miller's Song of Achilles is a testament to humanity of the gods – and the godliness of humans. Brilliant and beautiful Achilles is perverted by hubris: he is Aristos Achaion – best of the Greeks – and refused to fight in the Trojan War because Agamemnon stole Briseis, his slave won in the war. Ra ...more
Back in January, I filmed my response to two videos pertaining to the best and worst rated books that I read according to Goodreads ratings. I liked all of the books that were on the best rated list, while I actually liked some of the books on my worst rated list. Here is an instance in which a book could make the best rated list and it turns out being a book that I did not like in The Song of Achilles. I do admire and respect the grasp and knowledge that Madeline Miller has on her subject matte
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Having loved Miller's most recent book, Circe, I immediately put myself on the waitlist for this one at the library. Here she plucks Achilles and the Trojan war out of the Iliad and gives us a fantasy of the war to reclaim Helen of Troy from her captors, all told through the eyes of Achilles's friend and lover, Patroclus. It's part coming-of-age, part friendship/love story, part mythology about Gods and Goddesses, and, last but not least, a big part of this is that war. True to what often happen
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So, Troy, but bfs instead of bros and much better written than watched
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