Achilles: A Novel

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Picador, Feb 1, 2003 - Fiction - 128 pages

This powerful, passionate, and beautifully crafted retelling of the epic tale of Achilles re-creates Homer's fated hero in a new and striking reality. Born of the Sea nymph Thetis by the mortal King Peleus, and hidden as a girl until Odysseus discovers him, Achilles becomes the Greeks' greatest warrior at Troy. Into his story comes a cast of fascinating characters—among them, Hector, Helen, Penthiseleia the Amazon Queen, and the centaur Chiron; and finally John Keats, whose writings form the basis of a meditation on the nature of identity and shared experience.

An unforgettable and deeply moving work of fiction, Achilles is also an affirmation of the story's enduring power to reach across centuries and cultures to the core of our imagination.

 

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Contents

Two Rivers
Quicken
His Girlhood
The Choice
Vulnerary
Relay
Glossary of Classical Names
Copyright

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Common terms and phrases

Achaean Achilles Agamemnon Ajax Andromache Apollo armour arms arrow Artemis ash spear Automedon beach beautiful bier blood bones break breath Briseis Cassandra Castor and Polydeuces catches chariot chest child Chiron clasp Clytemnestra dark dead Deidamia dragged dust earth eyes face father feels fingers fire fish flame flesh funeral girl goes gone Greek commander Greek mainland ground hair hand hear heart Hector Hector’s body Hecuba Helen Hephaestus Heracles Hermes hold Keats kill King ldaeus lift living look lphigeneia Lycomedes man’s Menelaus mortal mother mouth move Myrmidons Neoptolemus never Odysseus palace Patroclus Peleus Penthiseleia Philoctetes Phthia Polydeuces Priam Priam and Hecuba pushes pyre Pyrrha river rock says Scamander sinew Skiros skull smell stop sword takes Theseus Thetis throat tongue tree Trojan Troy Troy’s turns walking wall warriors watched what’s women wood wooden horse wound Zeus

About the author (2003)

Elizabeth Cook has published short fiction and poetry as well as scholarly works on Renaissance literature, and has also written and presented for television and the theatre. Formerly a university lecturer, she has edited the works of John Keats. She lives in London.

Bibliographic information

TitleAchilles: A Novel
AuthorElizabeth Cook
PublisherPicador, 2003
ISBN1466840374, 9781466840379
Length128 pages
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Fiction / Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology
  
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