The Songs of the Kings

from emmakendon

Not as captivating as I thought it was going to be - a nice conceit and quite fun, but maybe I wanted some gods? I had read this before and couldn't remember it, so went to have another read but really couldn't be bothered a second time!

from elucubrare

I am much too much of a Homeric purist to really love this, but I didn't completely hate it either.

from elucubrare

I am much too much of a Homeric purist to really love this, but I didn't completely hate it either.

from hilllady

A wonderful, bitingly satirical novel about politics, set at the port of Aulis, where, according to The Iliad, the Greek fleet was briefly delayed by an ill-omened wind on their voyage to sack Troy. In Unsworth's telling, both the cause of the wind and the public messaging about it come at the in...

from mbergman

Once again, Unsworth (Morality Play) proves himself a masterful storyteller, here retelling (or reimagining--I don't know the original well enough to know which) a portion of the story of the Iliad in which Agamemnon is manipulated by such Greek heroes as Odysseus & Achilles into agreeing to sacr...