Comments on: Elektra: A Novel of the House of Atreus https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2022/05/elektra-a-novel-of-the-house-of-atreus/ Connecting Books and Readers One Review at a Time Thu, 12 May 2022 19:05:18 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Catherine https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2022/05/elektra-a-novel-of-the-house-of-atreus/#comment-291917 Thu, 12 May 2022 19:05:18 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=16714#comment-291917 In reply to Linda McMichael.

Troy is a lot of eye candy! I love movies that pique my interest in a subject and that one definitely did. Now that I’ve read so much about the Trojan War I see that the movie strays far from the myth, but it’s still entertaining. I wish Hollywood would make a Troy movie from one of the great recent fictional accounts told from the women’s perspectives.

And yes to women’s rights. I feel sick about what’s happening.

]]> By: Linda McMichael https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2022/05/elektra-a-novel-of-the-house-of-atreus/#comment-291911 Wed, 11 May 2022 17:40:53 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=16714#comment-291911 Who doesn’t love Greek/Roman/Norse mythology? This past weekend, when our Netflix was on the fritz, we dug out our DVD of the movie “Troy,” with Brad Pitt (Achilles), Eric Bana (Hector), Peter O’Toole (Priam), Sean Bean (Odysseus!) and the one and only Brian Cox as Agamemnon. It was the third or fourth time we’d seen this, but each time it gets better. I will suggest Elecktra to the book club on our next selection cycle. I know, movies aren’t as edifying as reading Edith Hamilton, but a good one, like Wolfgang Petersen’s “Troy,” can re-light that thirst for knowledge of the building blocks of our Western thought and literature.

And kudos for pointing out how timely this book is, with women’s rights almost as precarious as they were 3200 years ago.

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