A retelling of ‘The Iliad’ from a woman’s perspective, so the central figure is Breisis (I think), a Trojan princess captured by the Greeks in the sack of a Trojan city (not Troy itself), who became Achilles’s whore/slave in consequence.
The narrative alternates between her and Achilles, who is obsessed more with Patroclus than with his mistress. The narrative, possibly like the Iliad itself, is quite slow; the Greeks encamped on a bit of seashore within sight of Troy, but not a lot happens until a row with Agamemnon and Achilles results in Achilles withdrawing from combat and the plot picks up a bit from then.
There doesn’t appear to be any Trojan horse in reality although at a meal shortly before the end, Nestor (or one of the Greeks) watches his son playing with a toy horse with interest…
If I knew the Iliad better (or at all) I might have enjoyed this more.
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