In the sequel to her Iliad retelling The Silence of the Girls, told from the perspective of captured queen Briseis, Barker moves on from war to its aftermath
. In Barker’s account there is no romance – only more or less endurable connections between a slave and her owner – and no divinity. When characters talk about the way the Greek warriors, raping Trojan woman on the altars, have desecrated Troy’s temples, Barker’s Briseis thinks: “Bugger the temples. What about the women?” This is the Trojan war not only demythologised but stripped bare of every vestige of the heroic or numinous.
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