Homer's The Iliad is a landmark of ancient Greek literature, and many famous artists continue to portray it in their artworks ...

The Silence of the Girls. By Pat Barker.Doubleday; 304 pages; $27.95. Hamish Hamilton; £18.99. BRISEIS, an enslaved Trojan queen, speaks only once in the “Iliad”. Yet she is crucial to Homer’s epic: ...

Sing, O Muse, of the rage of Achilles ... but skip the verses about the wailing, faceless Trojan women herded into Greek camps to serve in kitchens or in beds, the starving children left in the burned ...

THE SILENCE OF THE GIRLS. By Pat Barker. Doubleday. 304 pages. $27.95. Pat Barker’s “The Silence of the Girls” joins the ranks of recent books by women that address the classical era, including ...

‘The Silence of the Girls’ joins a number of recent books addressing women in the classical era Pat Barker’s "The Silence of the Girls” joins the ranks of recent books by women that address the ...