but skip the verses about the wailing, faceless Trojan women herded into Greek camps ... Briseis tells the story of Homer's “Iliad” but tells it slant, refusing to cloak the cruelty of war ...

Homer’s epic poem “The Iliad” opens with a dispute between Achilles and his commanding general, Agamemnon, over two young women. Reading it centuries later, the writer Pat Barker says she ...

Pat Barker’s “The Silence of the Girls” joins the ranks of recent books by women that address the classical ... Barker’s novel, a retelling of Homer’s “Iliad” from the perspective ...

ADVERTISEMENT “'The Iliad' is a poem about how men fight for control of women‘s bodies—the whole plot is premised on that, and on the rage that happens between men over who gets to have ...

The Silence of the Girls is a powerful retelling of The Iliad, reimagined from the point ... Silence becomes a woman.' Two of the characters quote this to each other at one point and they burst ...

In 2018, Emily Wilson, a professor of Classical Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, became the first woman to write a full ... her translation of the Iliad, a text that is timely, given ...

Many 21st century readers have noticed some delightful gender-bending scenes in "The Odyssey." The goddess Athena cross-dresses and calls every shot regarding the fate of the hero, Odysseus, while ...

They range from Pat Barker’s “The Silence of the Girls,” which retells “The Iliad” from the perspective of the story’s women, to Madeline Miller’s bestseller “Circe,” a feminist ...

Over the years, some 100 people have translated the entire “Iliad” into English ... Why must men fight? Why must women weave? How strange, or how familiar, is the society of the poem?