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 ...

The Song of Achilles reimagines the story of Achilles and Patroclus from Homer's The Iliad.It follows the pair from childhood to the onset of the Trojan war and through its 10-year duration, as ...

The story of Achilles and Patroclus existed well before Hades ever came into being. A key plot line in Homer's Iliad, the story goes that Achilles withdrew from King Agamemnon's war against Troy ...

Years later, I came across The Song of Achilles by American novelist Madeline Miller, published in 2011. After hearing the book had Greek mythology and a doomed love story, I was intrigued.

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 ...

Her first novel, “The Song of Achilles,” awarded the 2012 Orange Prize for Fiction, tells the story of Patroclus, the famous warrior Achilles’ closest partner. Miller’s story focuses on the ...

Achilles frantic for the loss of Patroclus, rejecting the consolation of Thetis (1803) is a significant Neo-classical painting in Te Papa's collection. Its story is central to our comprehension and ...