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Synopsis
Briseis, Queen of a neighboring Trojan city, is captured by the Greeks when her city falls and given as a prize to Achilles, the greatest of the Greeks.
A retelling of the Trojan war from the point of view of a young woman having to carve out a new life for herself in the enemy camp.
Reviews
The prize is in the reading
by rogerco on Sun 16th Apr 2023.
A familiar story told from a different viewpoint (that ought to be a distinct genre of works). Very well written, and an interesting narrative idea in itself well executed. We certainly come to a different understand of what war means from behind the scenes.
Particulaltly like the way she mixes in modern cultural elements (eg the drinking songs, and soldiers banter) to provide cross-cultural reference points for the reader - of course the greek army in camp after a victory is like a bunch of rubgy or football players cellebrating a victory.
