![]() They’re crammed in, packed as tight as olives in a jar.” Achilles’ son Pyrrhus, desperate to live up to the reputation of his dead father, sits alongside his fellow Greek soldiers as the Trojans wheel the gigantic wooden horse into the city of Troy. “Inside the horse’s gut: heat, darkness, sweat, fear. I’m interested to see how my eventual reading of Homer’s text is shaped by my reading of Barker’s interpretation first. ![]() This is a fabulous continuation of Pat Barker’s feminist retelling of Homer’s Iliad, although given my elementary knowledge of Greek mythology and history, “The Silence of the Girls” and “The Women of Troy” are forming my baselines on the subject. ![]()
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