The Song of Achilles
core novel 2011 The Song of Achilles and Circe
Record
| First published | 2011 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.38 (365,497 ratings, collected 2026-08-13) |
| Page count | 352 |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780062060624 |
Where it sits
- Universe: The Song of Achilles and Circe
- Series: The Song of Achilles and Circe core; position 1 of 2 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Madeline Miller
Awards (verified)
- Women's Prize for Fiction, 2012: won; Confirmed directly via the award's own official site; announced under the prize's then-name, the Orange Prize for Fiction (renamed Women's Prize for Fiction in 2013 after a change of sponsor).
Notes
- From the series record (The Song of Achilles and Circe): Two independent standalone novels retelling Greek mythology, registered as ONE universe under this canon's 'one continuous world/continuity, not one continuous plot' bright line: Circe's own narrative directly overlaps and re-narrates scenes involving Achilles and Patroclus from The Song of Achilles, a genuine textual crossover, not merely a same-author/same-genre coincidence. internal chronology is deliberately left null for both books, matching the treatment of other overlapping chronologies -- Circe's own story begins well before Achilles' birth and continues long after the Trojan War, so the two books' timelines substantially overlap rather than sitting in a clean sequence; publication order is the sourced default. Registered 'sequence' rather than 'duology' since Miller has not stated the pair is permanently closed at 2 books.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings and are never conflated: a book's place in one says nothing about its place in the other.
- Publication order, within the series The Song of Achilles and Circe: position 1 of 2: next Circe (2018)
Sources
- Wikipedia: The Song of Achilles
- Wikipedia: Circe (novel)
- Women's Prize for Fiction: Madeline Miller Wins 2012 Orange Prize for Fiction
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