Ancient Greeks

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Reviewer’s Choice: A New Sublime – Ten Timeless Lessons on the Classics by Piero Boitani

While Shiny New Books concentrates on the new, occasionally, we give our reviewers room to share previously published – ie: ‘not Shiny New Books’ – they have been reading. A…

Shiny New Books February 2, 2021

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The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker

Reviewed by Alice Farrant The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker is the retelling of The Iliad from the perspective of Briseis (Brih-SAY-iss), once Queen of Lyrnessus and then…

Shiny New Books September 13, 2018

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Fiction Reprint

Fire from Heaven and The Persian Boy by Mary Renault

Reviewed by Jenny. Mary Renault has a genius for the past. It’s in all her historical books: the stony, fated world of the Greeks, rushed forward to our softer and…

Shiny New Books October 16, 2014

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