It takes a truly gifted writer to make a song this old feel this beautifully new. That The Song of Achilles offers a different take on the epic story of Achilles and the Trojan War is not, in ...

The Song of Achilles is a retelling of the events ofThe Illiad. The novel features Patroclus' narration as he moves through stages of his life: childhood, adolescence with Achilles, and the Trojan ...

In The Song of Achilles, Madeline Miller presents a love story against the backdrop of the Trojan war - between Achilles, leading the Greek army, and his best friend Patroclus.

I was conferring with Stephen Fry, who is a knowledgeable historian in his own right and has written a lot about the Trojan War. I wanted to take ‘A Song of Achilles,’ and I wanted to make it ...

Miller takes on a retelling of the Trojan War by turning it into a love story between two boys coming of age. The story is told through the perspective of Patroclus, Achilles’ companion.

Madeline Miller’s hit 2011 novel The Song of Achilles, which reimagines The Iliad, sparked an enduring literary trend.In the decade-plus since, novels that put a new spin on Greek epics like ...

Achilles was a private in Company D of the 19th Louisiana Infantry of the Confederate Army. In 1862, just after Achilles began serving in combat, he became ill at Corinth, Mississippi.

A still from the music video for “O Icarus,” the second single from the “Aristos” album. The video, made in collaboration with filmmaker Lawrence Dillon, was released in February.

One does not need to be a patron of the Rockingham Library in order to borrow a copy of "The Song of Achilles." The book discussion is free and open to the public. For more information, visit ...