Read Chapters One & Two of the Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller with Me

Sing, goddess, of that honey-voiced man who, after encounters with Greek polysyllables, led his followers bravely to the end of chapter two and our continued interest. Sing of Dylan, son of Texas, and of his interrupting cat, chapped of lip and generous of heart, and may his Patreon and YouTube channels swell perpetually

So excited for this!!

Huzzah! 👏 glad to see I am not the only one excited to share this reading with you and so very timely with Nolan’s Odyssey getting all the hype this summer (for good reason! Most excellent 😍). Anxious for the story to continue with all these myths and legends so front of mind right now. Does make one wonder why not more adaptions from the Aeneid have not been tried to continue on with. I eat this stuff up and have since childhood. Just need to watch Troy again for a decent primer on pronunciation of the names since so many of these kinglets and heroes also show up there, likely you would recognize the names spoken just not seen them spelled out recently. And there is always the latinizing of so many of them, much prefer your Greek pronunciation of Heracles (Hercules) over the Latin version that more might place since it is a Greek story after all. 🤷‍♀️ Glad you are liking it so far 😊

One of my fav books of all time. Hope you enjoy it🤌🏾

Ok here we go. This book broke me the first time.

Oh nice!! Glad you’re liking it so far - it’s a very different style to rwrb, but I love it. I’ve only read this book once, so I’ve forgotten quite a bit, I think, I’m excited to hear it again with you. How much context do you have for the plot/story? Do you know what happens in the iliad and the odyssey, or are you going in blind? Since you seemed confused by Heracles: it’s just a different way to say Hercules (the ancient greek hero). Looking forward to more chapters!

No way!!! I even was wanting to buy and read this after I finish my book !!!!!! This is perfect