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Word a woman of that time would never say:
'More men died of infection, then from the loss of blood.'

'Scepticism' the incredibly inappropriate use of words is very very distracting and breaks the immersion experience every couple of pages.

'Particles of wool' no, that's a 20th century way to put it. Are there not other words in the English language to express a small part of a thing, a part of a thread? Why would a writer bother looking up appropriate words for her novel?

'Burn everything belonging to him'.
Highly unlikely in an age where they did not know how infectious diseases worked.

Apollo lord of mice, because mice carry the plague. Which a woman living in the age of Achilles and the Trojan war would not know.
The face that it is probably not true not even to the extent that the fleas of the rats carry the disease is just a cherry on top of this pile of inaccurate shit.

'Rat kebabs' in Achilles' camp.
Fuck yeah historical inaccuracy.
'The name was firstly discovered in a Turkish script of Kyssa-i Yusuf in 1377, which is the oldest known source where kebab is stated as a food item'.