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Old 06-07-2013, 08:19 AM   #16825
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I will try the Odyssey some time but I think I deserve a rest from classics for a while!
I can recommend Madeline Miller's The Song of Achilles and Margaret Atwood's The Penelopeiad as related reading in a more modern style.

The Penelopeiad is probably best appreciated after reading the Odyssey itself, but it was reading The Song of Achilles that finally persuaded me to tackle the Odyssey (after many, many years of Classicsophobia).

I thoroughly enjoyed all thre, and The Song of Achilles is one of my very favourite books of recent years.
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