Just came across this post via your recent post on the sequel. This sounds like the sort of reading I have always been wanting for Briseis. I feel like I have been longing my whole life for a post-Iliad reading of her that doesn't cast her basically Achilles' girlfriend, with the two totally in love, etc. (I love Ovid, but I blame him for a lot there.)
My only concern as a potential reader, where I fear I might sense a pet peeve getting pushed on, is whether the text may read as a bit too "modern feminist" for me. Hard to tell from your review. I think it's a very delicate balance to own women's voices and the kind of conversations they must often have had about how unfair things are on women AND do so without undue (for my taste) modern anachronism. I expect that, like all of us, most of the women bought into most of what their culture expected.
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My only concern as a potential reader, where I fear I might sense a pet peeve getting pushed on, is whether the text may read as a bit too "modern feminist" for me. Hard to tell from your review. I think it's a very delicate balance to own women's voices and the kind of conversations they must often have had about how unfair things are on women AND do so without undue (for my taste) modern anachronism. I expect that, like all of us, most of the women bought into most of what their culture expected.