2026-05-25 · Bonus｜The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller — A Review (English)
A special English-language bonus episode. A thorough review of Madeline Miller's 2011 debut novel The Song of Achilles — a retelling of the Iliad from Patroclus's point of view.
We cover:
The book in context — Miller's classics background, the 2012 Orange Prize, the BookTok second life, and the ancient roots of the Patroclus–Achilles love story in Aeschylus's lost Myrmidons and Plato's Symposium
The poetic craft — sensory prose, the gold-and-light motif anchoring Achilles, Miller's restraint with Homeric epithets, the structural decision to narrate from beyond death, and the recurring lyre as…
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