The ancient world is always in fashion. And writers like Irene Vallejo o Madeline miller they are in charge of greening those laures (pun intended) of the most notorious transcendence. Because just as childhood shapes the personality of a person, that cradle of our culture that is ancient Greece or Rome make up most of our social, political and ethical principles. From inside doors and outside doors, everything is learned from these cultures where God had not yet arrived and thus certain encounters between gods, demigods, heroes and other characters were allowed that coexisted among people as a fabulous reality loaded with brilliant transcendental mythology ...
A bright, exuberant world laden with a literature sprinkled with lyricism and epic. An imaginary that ended up delving into the human forever from the etymological to the philosophical. Because hardly anything was known and everything was wanted to know with faith in the thought as an instinct and in its reason as the tool.
Greece in the age of heroes. Patroclus, a young and clumsy prince, has been exiled to the kingdom of Phtia, where he lives in the shadow of King Peleus and his divine son, Achilles. Achilles, the best of the Greeks, is everything that Patroclus is not: strong, handsome , son of a goddess. One day Achilles takes the pitiful prince under his wing, and that provisional bond gives way to a solid friendship as the two grow into young men skilled in the arts of war, but fate is never far from Achilles' heels.
When the news of the abduction of Helen of Sparta spreads, the men of Greece are summoned to besiege the city of Troy. Achilles, seduced by the promise of a glorious destiny, joins the cause, and Patroclus, torn between love and fear for his companion, follows him to war. Little did he imagine that the following years would put to the test everything they had learned and everything they deeply valued.
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