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Orion3500 t1_jce6r47 wrote

I didn’t like Song of Achilles much… Circe was amazing!

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harrietww t1_jcec86e wrote

I’m in the same boat as you - I read Circe first and right after the birth of my first child at the start of the pandemic so it really resonated with me. I’d read a few feminist Greek myth retellings so I had a pretty negative bias against Patroclus and Achilles going in which probably didn’t help.

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-bwep- t1_jcg2o1h wrote

That’s my hang up on reading it, I’ve already read Pat Barker’s Silence of the Girls and I don’t think I can romanticize Achilles after that.

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