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The Song of Achilles is a 2011 novel by American writer Madeline Miller. Set during the Greek Heroic Age , it is a retelling of the Trojan War as told from the perspective of Patroclus . The novel follows Patroclus' relationship with Achilles , from their initial meeting to their exploits during the Trojan War , with focus on their romantic ...
The Song of Achilles, Miller's debut novel, was released in September 2011. [3] [9] The book took her ten years to write.[2] [3] Set during the Greek Heroic Age, the novel tells the story from Patroclus' point of view and the bond that grew between him and Achilles.
It tells the story of Priam as he goes to Achilles to plead for the return of the body of Hector. The Lost Books of the Odyssey, by Zachary Mason, published in 2010, is a creative retelling of the adventures of Odysseus, king of Ithaca, told from the perspective of (mostly) the antagonists of Odysseus, e.g. Polyphemus, Circe, and Penelope.
Madeline Miller's 2011 debut novel, The Song of Achilles, [79] tells the story of Achilles and Patroclus's life together as children, lovers, and soldiers. The novel, which won the 2012 Women's Prize for Fiction , draws on the Iliad as well as the works of other classical authors such as Statius , Ovid , and Virgil .
Apollodorus' Library, in Book 3 and in the Epitome 5.10–12, 5.21, 5.24; The Aeneid by Virgil; Trojan Women by Seneca; The Posthomerica, an epic poem by Quintus of Smyrna; In Historia Regum Britanniae, he enslaved Helenus and other Trojans in revenge for the death of his father; In Confessio Amantis Book 4 line 2161ff he is the slayer of the ...
Sing, Goddess, the fatal resentment of Achilles, the son of Peleus, which caused innumerable woes to the Achaeans, and prematurely despatched many brave souls of heroes to Orcus, and made themselves (i.e. their bodies) a prey to dogs and all birds, (for the counsel of Jove was being accomplished,) from the time that Atrides, king of men, and ...