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The War That Killed Achilles: The True Story of Homer's Iliad and the Trojan War
by Caroline Alexander
The subtitle made me think this book would be a historical investigation into the events of the Trojan War, but it was instead an in-depth literary analysis of The Iliad. I would not have predicted that I would have enjoyed it as much as I did and the idea that Homer’s main point is that life is worth far more than any glory gained in war completely flips my preconceived notions of the epic.