Hoplites march to a bloodied beat, void of all notion – their impending demise. The sickle shines brightest when sun catches blade, and children and wives dance frenzied in mind. They are but ants to deities of old, no man can compete with the terms they have set. Inner conflict […]

Historical fiction is baffling in its complexity, and the writers baffling in their academic endurance. True historical writers spend months, if not years, researching their given period in such depth that their world comes alive in magnificent, anachronistic fashion. ‘The Song of Achilles’ is not conventional historical fiction,  yet Madeline Miller spent 10 years researching Ancient Greek […]