Things were also coming to an uncomfortable head back in Troy where a grief-stricken Andromache raised a righteous toast to Helen “the woman who caused all this”. Paris said goodbye to the fripperies of youth and announced he was putting city before sex. Paris is alive and Troy, as we have always known, will fall. I liked the little scene with Penthesilea burying her dead and the recognition that she has forgotten what it was like for people to die out of combat. This always was a shabby war.” – Achilles lays down a suitably grubby benediction to a dubious conflict.

Source: The Guardian March 31, 2018 21:00 UTC