Comment on My first foray into classical Graeco-Roman literature (I've read a bit of vi
Dahmonium@mastodon.social 2 weeks ago
@RanaldClouston @bookstodon After seeing the movie "Troy" and "Odysseus" I read Pat Barker's "Silence of the girls" (Dutch version). In the movies, Troy plays a central role as in the book. The difference is that in the book the story is told through the eyes of Briseïs from Lyrnessus, captured by the Greeks.
Characters in the movies are often depicted as heroes, this book shows those characters seen through women's eyes were far from being heroe-like.
A good way to calibrate one's viewpoint.
@Dahmonium @bookstodon have you read Margaret Atwood's Penelopiad? That's similarly a retelling / inversion of the Odyssey
@RanaldClouston @bookstodon No, but now added to my TBR-list