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A review by luana420
Age of Bronze, Vol. 1: A Thousand Ships by Eric Shanower
5.0
This really strikes the best possible balance between educational and entertaining; Shanower's meticulously researched takes on clothing, architecture, even the people themselves... it's a real treasure trove for an amateur archaeologist comme moi!
Let me also put up a very personal reading of a particular storyline here: Achilles' uhh "seduction"* of the princess Deidamia of Skyros when he is hidden as the handmaiden Pyrrha. They are together for years, even going so far as to having a baby which they name... Pyrrhus. Interestingly enough, Deidamia keeps calling Achilles Pyrrha, to the point that she even mentions at one point "oh I keep forgetting your boy name." I suppose this is supposed to make her... air-headed? But honestly, I read it as her making the best of a bad situation: Achilles truly does make for a beautiful girl, and this was just closeted Deidamia making a life for herself with a family and a wife, something in normal circumstances she never could have dreamed of.
I dunno, in a story that will probably end terribly for everyone, I feel like this is a reading that -- until contradicted -- injects a glimmer of hope.
*you know what this really means in mythology, but then again, Shanower shows her as turning kinda into it?
Let me also put up a very personal reading of a particular storyline here: Achilles' uhh "seduction"* of the princess Deidamia of Skyros when he is hidden as the handmaiden Pyrrha. They are together for years, even going so far as to having a baby which they name... Pyrrhus. Interestingly enough, Deidamia keeps calling Achilles Pyrrha, to the point that she even mentions at one point "oh I keep forgetting your boy name." I suppose this is supposed to make her... air-headed? But honestly, I read it as her making the best of a bad situation: Achilles truly does make for a beautiful girl, and this was just closeted Deidamia making a life for herself with a family and a wife, something in normal circumstances she never could have dreamed of.
I dunno, in a story that will probably end terribly for everyone, I feel like this is a reading that -- until contradicted -- injects a glimmer of hope.
*you know what this really means in mythology, but then again, Shanower shows her as turning kinda into it?