{"id":17570,"date":"2012-11-07T08:00:41","date_gmt":"2012-11-07T14:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=17570"},"modified":"2012-10-29T09:51:07","modified_gmt":"2012-10-29T14:51:07","slug":"the-song-of-achilles-by-madeline-miller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/the-song-of-achilles-by-madeline-miller\/","title":{"rendered":"The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rivershare.polarislibrary.com\/search\/searchresults.aspx?ctx=15.1033.0.0.1&amp;type=Keyword&amp;term=the%20song%20of%20achilles%20madeline%20miller&amp;by=KW&amp;sort=RELEVANCE&amp;limit=TOM=*&amp;query=&amp;page=0\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-17594\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/song-of-achilles.jpg?resize=198%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"198\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/song-of-achilles.jpg?resize=198%2C300&amp;ssl=1 198w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/song-of-achilles.jpg?w=415&amp;ssl=1 415w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 198px) 100vw, 198px\" \/><\/a>I love Greek mythology, so\u00a0after reading some glowing reviews I was excited to read <a href=\"http:\/\/rivershare.polarislibrary.com\/search\/searchresults.aspx?ctx=15.1033.0.0.1&amp;type=Keyword&amp;term=the%20song%20of%20achilles%20madeline%20miller&amp;by=KW&amp;sort=RELEVANCE&amp;limit=TOM=*&amp;query=&amp;page=0\" target=\"_blank\"><strong><em>The Song of Achilles<\/em><\/strong><\/a> by Madeline Miller.\u00a0 The novel follows young Patroclus, a prince who has been exiled from his homeland for accidentally killing a local boy who was threatening him.\u00a0 He is sent to Pthia to be fostered by King Peleus, and it is there where he meets Peleus&#8217;s son,\u00a0the boy who is destined to become The Best of the Greeks, Achilles.\u00a0 While Patroclus is small and weak, Achilles is everything that a prince should be: handsome, strong, and even a half-god. \u00a0Despite this, Achilles sees something in Patroclus and takes him under his wing.\u00a0 The two quickly bond and spend all of their time together, growing close during their studies.\u00a0 But when Menelaus&#8217;s beautiful wife Helen is stolen from him by the Trojan prince Paris, a promise that Patroculs made in his youth comes back to haunt him, and he and Achilles are thrown into a war that neither of them expected.<\/p>\n<p>Even those familiar with <strong><em>The Iliad<\/em><\/strong> and Greek mythology, despite knowing how the story will end, won&#8217;t be bored reading it. \u00a0At its heart is the relationship between Patroclus and Achilles; the characters have been made complex and intriguing by Miller, and it makes their story incredibly moving and heartfelt. \u00a0It is a beautiful story of war, love, and loss that you won&#8217;t be able to put down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love Greek mythology, so\u00a0after reading some glowing reviews I was excited to read The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller.\u00a0 The novel follows young Patroclus, a prince who has been exiled from his homeland for accidentally killing a local boy who was threatening him.\u00a0 He is sent to Pthia<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/the-song-of-achilles-by-madeline-miller\/\">[Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10,8],"tags":[2124,2123,2122],"class_list":["post-17570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-staff-picks","tag-ancient-greece","tag-ancient-history","tag-greek-mythology"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-4zo","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17570"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17858,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17570\/revisions\/17858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}