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Completed Book 1: The Quarrel. I was gripped immediately. Although the world feels morally distant, from my own it reflects the age the story is set. What surprised me the most was realising how much our notion of a hero has changed. Achilles' tears over the loss of his honor made me wonder whether, somewhere along the way, we detached vulnerability from heroism.
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Being an ardent feminist, I was immediately taken aback when Agamemnon and Achilles started talking about trophies. In Bronze Age Greece, trophies included enslaved women from the cities they conquered, who were became symbols of military honor and victory. What kind of world did they live in if this brutality represented honor to them?
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