Madeline Miller’s “The Song of Achilles” has become much more than a best-selling mythic romance; it’s a rite of passage for some LGBTQIA+ readers. First published in 2011, this Greek war epic — told ...

Jeremiah Brown asked his 2 million TikTok followers what to do after being voted off the hit series. The answer has him, and ...

To say that The Song of Achilles is simply a retelling of Homer’s Iliad from a different perspective would be to overlook the depth of emotion that Madeline Miller spent 10 years infusing into ...

Recently, my friend and I decided to reread The Song of Achilles because something about the cold beauty of winter was a reminder of this book that both of us adore.This reread marks my third time ...

This past week, I read “The Song of Achilles” by Madeline Miller, and I have a lot to say. The novel is a fictitious retelling of the classic Greek myth of Achilles and his companion and rumored lover ...

That The Song of Achilles offers a different take on the epic story of Achilles and the Trojan War is not, in itself, anything particularly out of the ordinary.

Achilles’ heel was not his heel, but his love for another man. Or so Madeline Miller tells it in “The Song of Achilles,” a novel that skillfully retells and embellishes Homer’s tale of the ...

Homer tells us what happened but not why. Miller’s “Song of Achilles” provides that back story, an exegesis that draws the personal and the intimate out of Homer’s virile action adventure.

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Madeline Miller’s lyrical first novel, The Song of Achilles, is a love story told from the viewpoint of Patroclus, a relatively minor character in The Iliad, yet the tragic fulcrum of the Trojan ...

The Song of Achilles. by Madeline Miller (Ecco) Unlike the lucky students of classicist Madeline Miller, I was never exposed to Homer in my youth.