The Women of Troy
Pat Barker • 2021
Devastation Rating
Greek mythology war women slavery
Our Take
Troy has fallen; the women wait to be distributed as slaves. Barker's Briseis continues her documentation of what war costs the bodies that do not appear in the Iliad. The Greek victory is a catalog of rapes and murders that Homer called glorious.
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