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The opening lines of Pat Barker’s The Silence of the Girls indicate emphatically that it not the women of Troy who will be the focus of the novel but the man whose name is synonymous with the story of Homer’s
The Illiad
- "Great Achilles. Brilliant Achilles, shining Achilles, godlike Achilles. How the epithets pile up.” p.3
The narrative does however brilliantly capture the voice of Briseis who although nobly born cannot escape becoming the property and slave of the aforementioned Achilles; ...more
The narrative does however brilliantly capture the voice of Briseis who although nobly born cannot escape becoming the property and slave of the aforementioned Achilles; ...more
