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That The Song of Achilles offers a different take on the epic story of Achilles and the Trojan War is not, in itself, anything particularly out of the ordinary.

Thetis dips baby Achilles into the waters of goddess / River Styx. Achilles became the Greek superhero in the Trojan War. Alexander the Great imitated him. Museum of Eleutherna, Crete, Greece.

The battle of Hector and Achilles as imagined in Troy (2004). Ultimately, Achilles kills Hector and desecrates his body, but Hector was clearly the better man. Two worldviews collide.

And so this starts off with Thetis, Achilles’ mom, who’s a sea goddess, explaining how painful it is to have a mortal son. It’s always hard to be a mom, as your moms may have told you.

The irresistible Achilles is the son of the sea goddess Thetis and the king Peleus. Patroclus, on the other hand, is an awkward young prince exiled from his homeland.