![]() Revisits tired tropes that seem very out of place in the ancient The characters are in the first 3rd of the book (9-16). Uncomfortable, especially considering how young What I got: The Song of Achilles reads very much like the erotic fantasy Men (in The Song of Achilles this is true of bothĪchilles and Patroclus), and what does that mean for him personally,Īs compared to what it would mean for us today? Think about his own romantic and sexual desires? Does he desire only (mythical) ancient Greece, a land where even Zeus took male lovers, Sexual identity, simply what one did (in addition to taking a wife, of course). We today would call “homosexual” was not considered part of one’s What I was hoping for: an honest exploration of the ancient GreekĬonception of sexuality, taking into account that homoeroticism that Relationship between Achilles and Patroclus-taking what The Iliad only implied and putting it to paper. I started the novel with high hopes, as The Song ofĪchilles promised to be an exploration of the romantic Stopped reading The Song of Achilles a third of the way Sexualization, exotified ethnicity, character death Warnings: rape, rape culture, explicit sex scenes, child
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