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A long time ago, this author was my O/H's English Literature teacher, so was suprised when a friend bought me this...
I thought it was pretty good, overall. Evocative, and Achilles is obviously half immortal, and so he makes sense, as he doesn't, in attempts to humanise him. He's a hawk-faced giant, as in the Ancient Greek depictions.
Priam has a distant relationship with Hector and his sons, but that is realistic.
I was glad that the relationship between Achilles and Briseis wasn't romanticised or ...more
I thought it was pretty good, overall. Evocative, and Achilles is obviously half immortal, and so he makes sense, as he doesn't, in attempts to humanise him. He's a hawk-faced giant, as in the Ancient Greek depictions.
Priam has a distant relationship with Hector and his sons, but that is realistic.
I was glad that the relationship between Achilles and Briseis wasn't romanticised or ...more
May 07, 2011
Leandro Meneses
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Jun 12, 2012
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