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Casting: The Song of Achilles

Season 2, Ep. 5

In today's episode of Typecast our hosts cast Madeline Miller's Orange Prize-winning novel The Song of Achilles. We discuss beautiful endings, why Achilles was basically a Greek celeb and how we all secretly know about the Trojan War from the Hollywood epic Troy.

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