2025/121: The Song of Achilles — Madeleine Miller

2025/121: The Song of Achilles — Madeleine Miller

Achilles returns to the tent, where my body waits. He is red and red and rust-red, up to his elbows, his knees, his neck, as if he has swum in the vast dark chambers of a heart, and emerged, just now, still dripping. [p. 325]

This is the story of Achilles and Patroclus, and of the war.( Read more... )