A Persian boy named Bagoas, castrated and sold as a slave after his family's ruin, becomes a favorite in King Darius's court and then Alexander the Great's companion, narrating Alexander's conquests and death from inside the royal tent.
Books mentioned in The Persian Boy (2)
Iliad by Homer: “"So you've never read the Iliad?" ... "If Kallisthenes is above bringing you Homer, I am not."”
The Myrmidons by Aeschylus: “Only one of them stays with me, The Myrmidons, which Thettalos had done before for Alexander; it's about Achilles, and Patroklos' death.”
Books that mention The Persian Boy (1)
Among Others by Jo Walton: “Mary Renault’s The Persian Boy had come in.”