7 Retellings of the Classics
For when you’ve already read Circe and The Song of Achilles
4 min readSep 21, 2021
When classics feel a little intimidating, a good way in can be retellings. There are a lot of great ones around these days, and they introduce diversity into the often very white, very heterosexual world of Western fairylates, Greek myth, Jane Austen novels, or Shakespearean plays. Circe and Song of Achilles are two…