Specifically, Briseis was the reward set aside for the Greek warrior Achilles, who during the melee killed her father and brothers.
The Women of Troy deals with the end of the Trojan War and its immediate aftermath, from Trojan horse through the departure of the Greeks towards home.īoth of Barker’s novels feature Briseis, who in The Iliad represents part of the spoils for the Greeks from their sacking of the city of Lyrnessus. The story serves as a sequel of Barker’s previous novel The Silence of the Girls, which focuses more directly on pivotal events of The Iliad. With the novel The Women of Troy, author Pat Barker gives voice to some of the tyrannized female characters of The Iliad, which helps to humanize them and thus brings into relief the horror of theirs plights.
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