hated this book. For one, I'm not overly interested in war stories
or movies or whatnot. It isn't my cup of tea. For another, the
language was difficult to follow. I found it funny that the real
people attributed so much to the gods and goddesses... "Oh I lost
that race because Aphrodite made me slip in the ox blood..."
"Apollo saved me from your spear!" yada yada yada
I don't know what the title means, not being familiar with Latin I
wonder if it's a different form of Ilios or something? I wish it
was called "All About Achilles" or even "How the Trojan War was
Won" or even "Trojans gone wild!"
I could have done without the descriptions of all the different
ways that people were killed. It's a war, and people die, I get it,
however I don't need to read how their eyes fell out when they were
it with a rock (anatomically impossible, their being attached to
optical nerves. They would just dangle)
I was disappointed, because I thought there would be more of those
traditional stories you hear about, like how Achilles was dipped in
the Styx, or how awesome Helen was to make so many people fight
over her or something. Nope, just straight up battles and funeral
games and stuff.