The Silence of the Girls

Left with mixed feelings!! I think mostly I don't love that Achilles and Patroclus perspectives were included, it's giving - the girls continue to be silenced. If perhaps the story ended with only their perspectives and Briseis voice fully gone - giving into the title, maybe it would've made sense, but that doesn't happen, so why am I hearing these men speak at all? My interest really wavered through most of it, got good at the end. Perhaps bc I am already so familiar with Achilles story?