{"id":6503,"date":"2025-01-08T22:03:39","date_gmt":"2025-01-08T22:03:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/entertainment\/books\/a-fresh-look-at-the-iliad-from-the-eyes-of-a-commoner\/"},"modified":"2025-01-08T22:03:39","modified_gmt":"2025-01-08T22:03:39","slug":"a-fresh-look-at-the-iliad-from-the-eyes-of-a-commoner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=6503","title":{"rendered":"A Fresh Look at THE ILIAD, From the Eyes of a Commoner"},"content":{"rendered":"


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The Voyage Home<\/a> by Pat Barker<\/h3>\n
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Ritsa was once a free woman of Troy. Now she\u2019s the personal enslaved person for Cassandra, the daughter of Priam, who is herself enslaved as a concubine to King Agamemnon. Cassandra and Ritsa are put on Agamemnon\u2019s ship back to Mycenae, where his wife Clytemnestra waits to kill him. Before Agamemnon left for the battle of Troy, he sacrificed his daughter to earn the favor of the gods to gain a good wind to sail to Troy. Clytemnestra has been waiting for revenge ever since.<\/p>\n

Cassandra once refused to sleep with the god Apollo, who then cursed her with the ability to accurately foretell the future, although no one would believe her. Cassandra predicts Agamemnon\u2019s death to whoever will listen, only to have her warnings ignored. It looks like both Agamemnon\u2019s wife and his concubine have the same goals. But Barker chooses to tell this story of Agamemnon\u2019s downfall from the perspective of Ritsa. Ritsa brings a down-to-earth perspective on the machinations of royalty. Whether she works for Cassandra or someone else, she\u2019s still enslaved.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The palace at Mycenae is haunted, the sounds of children murdered within its walls echoing throughout the drafty room. Handprints of the children appear on the wall, and Cassandra can\u2019t seem to cover them up fast enough. Agamemnon\u2019s family is always haunted by the violence they\u2019ve enacted on each other.<\/p>\n

With so many moving parts, The Voyage Home<\/em> isn\u2019t as focused or centered as the previous two entries into the series\u2014The Silence of the Girls<\/a> and The Women of Troy<\/a>\u2014but it still possesses the emotional depth and intimacy of the previous two novels. Ritsa gives readers insight into the life of a \u201ccommon\u201d middle-aged woman of Troy whose life is destroyed by the war. Her story is all the more captivating as her courage and resilience shine through on every page.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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