More like The Song of Achilles
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The Song of Achilles follows Patroclus — a prince exiled for disappointing his father — as he becomes the one mortal who can keep pace with the half-god Achilles. Narrated from Patroclus's perspective, the novel traces their deepening bond from first meeting through the siege of Troy, placing loyalty and intimacy at the heart of a story most readers already know the end of. That foreknowledge is part of the weight: every quiet moment carries it.
About The Song of Achilles
The Song of Achilles is a 2011 novel by American writer Madeline Miller. Set during the Greek Heroic Age, it is a retelling of the Trojan War as told from the perspective of Patroclus. The novel follows Patroclus' relationship with Achilles, from their initial meeting to their exploits during the Trojan War, with focus on their romantic relationship. In 2012, The Song of Achilles was awarded the Orange Prize for Fiction.
From the Wikipedia article The_Song_of_Achilles, available under CC BY-SA.
Films like The Song of Achilles
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Troy
The same Bronze Age clash over Helen, here told as sweeping war between two emerging nations.
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Troy: The Odyssey
Picks up after Troy's fall with Odysseus navigating a sea of misadventures on the long road home.
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Helen of Troy
Paris and Helen's doomed passion unfolds before war is ever declared, centred on mutual desire and flight.
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Achilles Returns
Achilles himself returns — not to Troy but to a modern world, pulled back from the Underworld by divine negotiation.
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The Trojan Women
The aftermath seen through Trojan eyes: a queen surveying loss, widowhood, and the threat of enslavement.
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Trojan War
The title borrows the legend but the story is a modern comedy about a boy oblivious to his best friend's love.
Series like The Song of Achilles
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Troy: Fall of a City
The Trojan siege retold through the royal family inside the walls — love, betrayal, and belonging under siege.
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Helen of Troy
Paris and Helen's flight to Troy triggers the war, framed here as the fulfilment of an ancient prophecy.
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The Odyssey
Odysseus must outwit monsters and godlike forces across a decade-long journey home from the same war.
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Saint Seiya: The Lost Canvas
Three childhood companions make a pact, are separated, and find themselves on opposite sides of a sacred war.
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Patria
Ordinary lives on both sides of a long political conflict, seen through those left behind after a ceasefire.
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Porus
A warrior's life defined by one great battle — here the clash between Porus and Alexander the Great.
Games like The Song of Achilles
More books like The Song of Achilles
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The Song of Troy
The full Trojan saga — love, vengeance, honour, and sacrifice — told as tragic epic across every side of the war.
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The Trojan War
Retells the heroes' legends from Paris's abduction of Helen through the war it unleashes.
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The Trojan Horse
Recounts the Greeks' final stratagem — the wooden horse that ended ten years of siege.
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Kassandra
Troy's fall retold from Cassandra's point of view — a witness who foresaw the end and was never believed.
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The Iliad
Homer's foundational epic — the oldest written source for the war and the heroes Patroclus stands beside.
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Lion of the sun
A Roman emperor captured by enemies after betrayal by his most trusted adviser — captivity and its cost.
Frequently asked
What should I watch after The Song of Achilles?
The TV series Troy: Fall of a City tells the siege from the Trojan royal family's perspective with the same mix of love and war, and the 2004 film Troy covers the same epic conflict with high-stakes battle spectacle.
Are there other books that retell the Trojan War like The Song of Achilles?
Kassandra reimagines the fall of Troy through another sidelined voice — the prophetess Cassandra — while The Iliad is the foundational source poem that the novel draws directly from.
What games let you play through the Trojan War?
Total War Saga: TROY lets you command the legendary armies of the conflict as a strategy epic, and God of War: Chains of Olympus puts you inside the brutal mythology of ancient Greece as a warrior serving the gods.