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A review by stubbornjerk
The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
5.0
I went from Riordan and straight into this, and the quality is unsurprisingly vast. It's like, this is space and other books about Mythological Romantic Fiction (or, you know, fanfiction) is practically the bottom of the ocean.
I'm going to be hyperbolic about this whole book if I tried to compliment every part of it, so I won't do that. I just have to say, this really helped me get into Greek tragedies and researching about Greek tragedies.it also made me hate Hollywood with a fire that could rival a hundred thousand pyres on the beach
This book isn't necessarily Illiad canon. No, of course not. Scholars and poets and philosophers (basically Homer's homies) have said a lot that Patroclus/Achilles isn't a thing. But I digress, this is as accurate as it gets, with its allusions to Greek culture and norms. Also, it's pretty effing modern poetic, considering it's from old-as-balls epic poem.
I'm going to be hyperbolic about this whole book if I tried to compliment every part of it, so I won't do that. I just have to say, this really helped me get into Greek tragedies and researching about Greek tragedies.
This book isn't necessarily Illiad canon. No, of course not. Scholars and poets and philosophers (basically Homer's homies) have said a lot that Patroclus/Achilles isn't a thing. But I digress, this is as accurate as it gets, with its allusions to Greek culture and norms. Also, it's pretty effing modern poetic, considering it's from old-as-balls epic poem.