The silence of the girls. Pat Barker

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‘The Silence of the Girls’ by Pat Barker is a retelling of the Iliad that focuses on Briseis – the slave girl that Achilles and Agamemnon fought over in the final year of the Trojan War. When Achilles storms the small city of Lyrnessus, he takes its former queen, Briseis, as his prize. She is forced to serve and sleep with him until Agamemnon, the commander of the Greek army, quarrels with Achilles and claims Briseis as his own. This causes Achilles to withdraw from the fighting; but, as the Greeks begin to lose the war, everyone starts to question whether yet another fight over a girl is worth it.

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