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THE RAGE OF ACHILLES IBD

TERENCE HAWKINS
THE CALLIOPE GROUP
04 / 2023
9798986601533
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'The ancient world feels new again in Terence HawkinsâÇÖ The Rage of Achilles, which combines a raw, idiomatic retelling of the Iliad with a searching assay of human consciousness. Unique and invigorating.'-Louis Bayard, author of The Pale Blue Eye.InáThe Rage of Achilles, Terence Hawkins re-imagines theáIliadáas a novel and a Trojan War that really happened.áThough he adopts HomerâÇÖs characters, those fabled warriors are no more noble than the scared, tired grunts they command, exhausted and bitter after ten years of brutal Bronze Age warfare.áAnd however savage the fighting, over all hangs the terrible truth that the objective of combat is not glory, but the enslavement of the defeated.This realism extends to the gods themselves.áInformed by Julian JaynesâÇÖ groundbreaking theory of the bicameral mind-the basis of HBOâÇÖs 'Westworld'-The Rage of Achillesátakes place in a world in which the modern human consciousness struggles painfully to be born.áThe gods are only the hallucinations of men and women desperate to be told what to do in a terrifying and confusing world.Told in taut, elegant prose that captures both the Homeric lyric and military grit,áThe Rage of Achillesáis a fast-moving take on literatureâÇÖs foundational epic.