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

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

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

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

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

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

Graphic novelist and artist Gareth Hinds read “The Odyssey” for the first time in high school. His teacher could tell that he enjoyed it then, […] ...

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 ...

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 ...

Soldiers are different. They are servants of the state. In well-governed countries, they are bound by discipline, the rule of law, and commitment to comrades and organizations—not to ...

Achilles, the mightiest warrior in Homer’s Iliad, described the sort of anger ... when he rejoins the battle following the death of Patroclus at Hector’s hands. It used to be said that ...