Last Wednesday, Chicago-based musician and composer Joe Goodkin was invited to perform from his album “The Blues of Achilles,” his award winning musical adaptation of “The Iliad." On Wednesday, the ...

The Iliad is a poem of violence ... he too is motivated by revenge because Hector has killed his friend Patroclus. Achilles carries the onslaught into the river Scamander, which becomes glutted ...

Source of Information: Principally the Iliad and the Odyssey ... Disaster threatened. Patroclus, the hero’s friend, drove the Trojans back to their gates, but was killed by Hector, who then ...

Episode 5 Patroclus is slain by Hector and Achilles ... including Homer’s epic poem The Iliad, which is at least 2,500 years old. The cause of war is Helen’s elopement from the Spartan court ...