![]() ![]() Inside the wooden offering is Pyrrhus, the son of Achilles, desperate to prove himself worthy of his now dead father. The Women of Troy opens with the story of the Trojan Horse. In The Women of Troy, Barker continues the story of Briseis in the aftermath of the Trojan War. She used the story as a scaffold to explore age-old themes of gender relations, power and misogyny. In that book Barker used the story of The Iliad and the siege of Troy told from the perspective of Briseis, a prize of war. ![]() There have been plenty of retellings of Greek history and mythology of late (just recently – The Porpoise by Mark Haddon, Circe by Madeline Millerand Ariadne by Jennifer Saint) but one of the best of recent years was Pat Barker’s The Silence of the Girls. ![]()
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