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Once more, my obsession with ancient Greece raises its bronze helmeted head - particularly anything related to Troy and the characters involved in that tragic, epic tale.
As the title would suggest, this is a tale of Achilles, destined, or perhaps fated, to become immortalized as the greatest of the Greek warriors. But there is more to Achilles than just a fearsome, unstoppable slaughterer of men.
Driven by a destiny in which his two choices are obscurity and long life or eternal glory and short existence, Miller weaves the complex relationship between the hero and Patroclus into a wild romance that will eventually be the downfall of both.
Written with compassion and an insight that perhaps the vanity of men is not worth the destruction that it wreaks upon those who are swept along with it.
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Greece in the age of heroes. Patroclus, an awkward young prince, has been exiled to the court of King Peleus and his perfect son Achilles. Despite their differences, Achilles befriends the shamed prince, and as they grow into young men skilled in the arts of war and medicine, their bond blossoms…