Book Review: The Silence of The Girls & The Women of Troy

Want to learn about classics but not sure where to start? Spoilt for choice with classics in the book charts? This series provides reviews of the latest chart books on classics. This video reviews Pat Barker's Silence of The Girls and the sequel Women of Troy. I set out the premise and plot without spoiling your reading and signpost how the book could be used for teaching.
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[@tomstreats5775]

Silence of the girls is so good I’m doing my English coursework on it.

[@MillennialClassicist]

Glad you are enjoying it. I think you'd love Women of Troy when your coursework is finished. Happy reading and thanks for the nice comment 😊

[@angelaholmes8888]

Just finished reading the silence of the girls definitely will be reading the women of troy

[@marierimmer7845]

I have read silence of the girl's it's one of my favourite greek myth re-tellings i haven't gotten round to reading the women of Troy yet but i am looking forward to getting round to it.

[@whitepanties2751]

Did you not find the stuff about women and girls being raped, little Trojan boys snatched from their mothers arms to be killed by the Greeks, rats and urine in the Greek camp etc. disturbing?

[@matthewolivercarter4298]

I saw Women of Troy at the library where I work. It looked interesting and I'm glad to hear your review.

[@MillennialClassicist]

Apologies for the late reply! Have you managed to read it yet? Let me know what you think. 📚

[@faithlessfather]

If an event occurred in 100 BCE how much later can a source be written by an anonymous author and still be considered a primary source (if it is the earliest extant source for the event in 100 BCE)? Or can an anonymous, non-contemporaneous source ever be considered a primary source? Who can I read to understand more specifically about ancient source quality, source nature / source evaluation?

[@laurencleary6724]

hi! I've been researching a figure of ancient history/mythology recently who's first told by an anonymous summary of a source written 400 years after the fact, and is still generally considered a primary source because the historian who was anonymously summarised may have used records from the civilisation that the person was from. all that is to say, I don't think there's necessarily a hard cut-off for primary sources - it likely depends what specifically you're researching towards, and what the specific source is. in a high-school setting, I've been encouraged to refer to ancient rather than primary sources for the ones you're referring to - it seems to be a safe option in the unsure instances. even though I'm a year late, I hope this helps!

[@-onestar]

How many chapter does The women of Troy had? I just read it on my kobo but I feel like I’m missing some chapter, like the end of the book was strange. Also, according to internet, the French book (because I read in French) was 384 pages but I only had like 284… So how many chapter did you have? I tried looking on internet but I couldn’t find the info… thanks you so much! Because I’m not sure if I really like it if it was the “real” ending of the book that I had 😅

[@matthewolivercarter4298]

Our copy has 284 pages too.

[@charlottedouglas1777]

Paperback 305