For those struggling to cope with Trump's flurry of executive orders, Simone Weil and 'The Iliad' offer useful guidance.

Selected by Amanda Parrish Morgan, the author, most recently, of “Stroller.” ...

One story that incessantly echoes is that of Achilles in the Iliad whose sense of betrayal by his commander, Agamemnon, who ...

While Odysseus and Achilles fought for the same cause, they embody two different approaches to ancient Greek heroism.

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 ...

Last Wednesday, Chicago-based musician and composer Joe Goodkin was invited to perform from his album “The Blues of Achilles, ...

Greek mythology is prominent in art dating from antiquity through to the renaissance and even in contemporary artwork. During ...

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 ...