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A few weeks at Troy, and the anger of Achilles. Homer’s Iliad is not the whole war: it is honour, Patroclus, Hector, and the gods leaning in. Glory priced in bodies. The poem that taught Europe how a hero weeps, and how a city waits. The quarrel over a prize, the ships, the night raid, Priam in Achilles’ tent. Not a children’s Homer: a poem about what winning costs, and who washes the dead. Briseis, the night raid, Priam kissing the hands that killed his son.
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- Audiobook · English · Sovereign9781802568400