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I brought some of my team members from the Amsterdam Troy Project to sit and react to the 2004 epic Troy with me! Even though we can't get to Troy this year to carry out our excavations, we can still ...
Madeline Miller spent over a decade writing The Song of Achilles – a fantasy romance retelling of Homer’s epic poem The Iliad ...
Ahead of the publication of a new edition of Homer’s epics—which he has illustrated—the artist also explains why he switches ...
Greek mythology is full of artifacts endowed with supernatural powers, in addition to a myriad of unforgettable gods, ...
Directed by Wolfgang Petersen, who assembled a suitably heroic cast featuring the likes of Brad Pitt, Peter O’Toole, Brian ...
This summer marks the fourth time Court Theatre has mounted Lisa Peterson and Denis O'Hare's “An Iliad.” Based on Robert Fagles' translation of Homer's epic poem about the Trojan War, ...
The Iliad is a long poem – an epic – thought to have first been put down in writing in the eighth century BC, though the story is set several hundred years before, perhaps as early as the 12th ...
Emily Wilson, who translated The Iliad in 2023, gives a lively contemporary reading. The Iliad is a story of war between Greeks and Trojans, but also of “beefs”.
The Iliad is a story of war between Greeks and Trojans, but also of “beefs”. Menelaus versus Paris over the hand of Helen. Achilles versus Agamemnon, the king of the Greeks who wrongs him by ...
If Trump were one of the rogues from Homer’s ‘Iliad,’ which would he be? Principals of the Trojan War, from left: Menelaus, Paris, Diomedes, Ulysses, Nestor, Achilles and Agamemnon.
Homer's Iliad is so canonical in world literature that even without having read the epic, most people are familiar with the broad scenario of the Trojan war, triggered by the Trojan prince Paris's ...
PAWTUCKET, R.I. — In “An Iliad,” which received both an Obie and Lucille Lortel Award for its 2012 off-Broadway production, playwrights Lisa Peterson and Denis O’Hare offer a compressed ...