The song of achilles author6/6/2023 ![]() ![]() Incalculable pain, pitched countless soulsįor dogs and birds, as Zeus’ will was done. From a different point of viewīlack and murderous, that cost the Greeks In 2021 the Italian publisher Sonzogno published her short story Galatea with illustrations by Ambra Garlaschelli. Following this, in 2018 Miller wrote her second novel, Circe, that is an adaptation of the Odyssey. It then became a success in 2021, partly due to positive reviewing on a TikTok video. Published in 2011 by Ecco Press, The Song of Achilles won an award the following year at the 17th Orange Prize for Fiction. She studied Classics and writing her first novel took her ten years. ![]() Miller has been passionate about Greek mythology since her mother read the Iliad to her when she was a child. Her first novel The Song of Achilles is a reinterpretation of the myth as a story of a love worth dying for. But according to American novelist Madeline Miller, that is not Iliad‘s most important relationship. Homer’s Iliad is often regarded as a story about war, originated by the love between Paris and Helen of Troy. ![]()
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