i also like how the gods are totally absent - it's just people, who are religious, and who sometimes say prophecies, but it's left ambiguous if the gods truly are there or not, or if it's just the power of belief. the gods also aren't called by their names - just epithets.
age of bronze (one million content warnings if you read it) is very good at demonstrating the weaving tangle of family, grudges, and backstory that makes up greek myth.
paris sailed from troy to bring back hesione. everything feels like inevitable - falling like dominos.
