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Madeline Miller and Sjón talk to Jim Naughtie

The Greeks 6 - The Song of Achilles and The Whispering Muse

Hay Festival 2012, 
The Song of Achilles is a re-imagining of the love story at the heart of Homer’s Iliad; The Whispering Muse pitches the mythic hero Caeneus and his tales of the Argonauts, the Golden Fleece and Lemnos onto a Scandinavian merchant ship in 1949.