Achilles

Also known as: Aristos Achaion, Pelides

Aristos Achaion, best of the Greeks, a demigod prince whose glory at Troy was prophesied alongside his death. In Miller's telling, every choice bends around Patroclus, the boy he loved before he was a legend.

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Achilles/Patroclus

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Madeline Miller's retelling made the Iliad's central grief explicit: the golden son of a goddess and the exiled boy he chose over godhood, from Pelion's caves to the walls of Troy. 'He is half of my soul, as the poets say' became a generational tattoo of a sentence.

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Patroclus

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An exiled prince with no talent for war and endless talent for kindness, narrating his life beside Achilles from Phthia to the walls of Troy. 'Name one hero who was happy' hangs over every page he tells.

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