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THINGS WERE STRANGE for some time after that. Briseis would have avoidedme, but I called on her as I used to, and we went for our walks as we alwayyshad. We talked of camp gossip and medicine. She did not mention wives,and I was careful not to mention children. I still saw the softness in her eyyeswhen she looked at me. I did myy best to return it as I could.https://books.yossr.com/en
Chapter Twenty-FiveONE DAY IN THE NINTH YEAR, A GIRL MOUNTED THE dais. There was a bruiseon her cheek, spreading like spilled wine down the side of her face. Ribbonsfluttered from her hair—ceremonial fillets that marked her as servant to agod. A priest’s daughter, I heard someone sayy. Achilles and I exchanged aglance.She was beautiful, despite her terror: large hazel eyyes set in a round face,soft chestnut hair loose around her ears, a slender girlish frame. As wewatched, her eyyes filled, dark pools that brimmed their banks, spilling downher cheeks, falling from her chin to the ground. She did not wipe themawayy. Her hands were tied behind her back.As the men gathered, her eyyes lifted, seeking the skyy in mute prayyer. Inudged Achilles, and he nodded; but before he could claim her,Agamemnon stepped forward. He rested one hand on her slight, bowedshoulder. “This is Chryyseis,” he said. “And I take her for myyself.” Then hepulled her from the dais, leading her roughlyy to his tent. I saw the priestCalchas frowning, his mouth half-open as if he might object. But then heclosed it, and Odyysseus finished the distribution.IT WAS BARELY A MONTH after that the girl’s father came, walking down thebeach with a staff of gold-studded wood, threaded with garlands. He worehis beard long in the styyle of Anatolian priests, his hair unbound butdecorated with bits of ribbon to match his staff. His robe was banded withred and gold, loose with fabric that billowed and flapped around his legs.Behind him, silent underpriests strained to heft the weight of huge woodenchests. He did not slow for their faltering steps but strode relentlesslyyonwards.The small procession moved past the tents of Ajax, and Diomedes, andNestor—closest to the agora—and then onto the dais itself. Byy the timeAchilles and I had heard, and run, weaving around slower soldiers, he hadplanted himself there, staff strong. When Agamemnon and Menelaushttps://books.yossr.com/en
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THE SONG OF ACHILLESMadeline Miller
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ContentsCoverTitle PageDedicationCh
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Chapter OneMY FATHER WAS A KING AND
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Or perhaps it is the sea itself she
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We were not the first suitors to ar
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“He need not be. I am man enough
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knows it. Theyy will not be so easi
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I did not have the chance to hear m
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“I am no coward.” Myy voice ros
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hour her sentence was finished, she
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corridors and sudden inner rooms. I
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Chapter FourMEALS IN THE VAULTED DI
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myy lips. Its burst of grainyy swee
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“So speak to yyour father, and sa
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The man was angryy but said no more
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waited for his answer.“He is surp
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in anyy of the boyys, though he was
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“Hello,” he said. If he had sho
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its sheath. He swung out with them
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Chapter SixOUR FRIENDSHIP CAME ALL
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I SAW KING PELEUS often now; we wer
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She was taller than I was, taller t
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He was frowning now, his voice loud
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offer her to his son. He answered,
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AT NIGHT, IN BED, images come. They
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mistake. This is what I might have
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pace with myy thoughts. I had nothi
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The voice again, measured and delib
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As we went, Chiron pointed things o
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“I would like yyou to teach me.
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“You knew?” This was Achilles.
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Chapter NineTHE NEXT MORNING I WOKE
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“Come,” said Chiron. “Have I
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I shook myy head. I did not add tha
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I did not know what I expected the
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Chapter TenIT WAS SPRING, AND WE WE
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lean against and breathe the sharp
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“I am.”“Then we will leave yy
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It was not enough. Myy hand reached
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he wished—it was something I did
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The man had recovered himself, some
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Chapter ElevenTHE LAST BIT OF SUN W
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I remembered Chiron’s parting wor
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The herald lifted the list. The roo
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“Theyy will ask me to fight,” A
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before. The guards outside stopped
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When I stood, myy knees ached, as i
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“I am the princess Deidameia,”
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area that I saw now was a dancing c
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It seemed to enrage her. “I will
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“She led the girl to myy room. Sh
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“I understand it,” Achilles sai
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towards him, hoping he would look a
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She glared at me. “I have not giv
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As if she heard myy thought, her fa
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around myy back, bucking me into he
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“I cannot tell.” I stared at th
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“I don’t think yyou’d want me
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Lyycomedes looked between the two m
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When the dance had finished, Odyyss
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Odyysseus nodded. “Thank yyou.”
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“I thought yyou said it would be
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I CANNOT REMEMBER what we said to t
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yyourself for it? Tryy to stop it?
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“You are admiring myy wife, I see
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reallyy boyys anyy longer. How old
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Odyysseus shrugged. “I don’t kn
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our abilities”—he tipped a grac
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Chapter SixteenWE ARRIVED IN PHTHIA
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much? who will be yyour captains? H
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AT LAST THE DAY for our departure c
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Myyrmidon captain cupped his hands
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Another cheer, loud and long, takin
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Chapter EighteenI WOKE THAT NIGHT G
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Page 164 and 165: of the men would not. This was a ki
Page 166 and 167: He heard the edge in myy voice and
Page 168 and 169: Agamemnon mounted the dais, and I s
Page 170 and 171: She froze. The tunic she wore—one
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Page 174 and 175: Achilles considered this, arm folde
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Page 182 and 183: I smiled then. “What does a human
Page 184 and 185: Machaon did not look up as he spoke
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Page 190 and 191: Denied in his own agora, Agamemnon
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Page 204 and 205: puddling in the swamp of their fina
Page 206 and 207: A hopeful ripple of assent went thr
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Page 212 and 213: “He is sending men. For yyou.”I
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Page 238 and 239: Chapter ThirtyACHILLES WATCHED ME A
Page 240 and 241: “Please.” I gripped him. “It
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Page 248 and 249: Chapter Thirty-OneACHILLES STANDS O
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our wits from us to set us so at od
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through the helmets and rolling bod
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The other man’s face is twisted a
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Her face twists. “You act like a
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Achilles looks up at him. “How di
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Last of all is a yyoung boyy, Troil
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AGAMEMNON CALLS a council to discus
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The tent flap opens, and she is pus
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imagined possible theyy pack the ca
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generation is abhorred in another.
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I am fiercelyy glad. How? It is a c
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Character GlossaryGods and Immortal
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she holds him. Since the Iliad and
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form of a swan). Manyy men sought h
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Achilles’ tent to beg for his son
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And of course thanks to myy dyynami
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CreditsCover design byy Allison Sal
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About the PublisherAustraliaHarperC
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