“If I return home to my dear native land, then lost is my glorious renown, yet shall my life long endure, neither shall the doom of death come soon upon me,” said Achilles in Homer’s The Iliad.

The essay — “The Iliad, or the Poem of Force” — was ... and the reply will probably be Achilles and, if not, his friend Patroclus or his enemy Hector. But Weil replies that the true ...

It comes from Homer's epic poem The Iliad.; The Trojan Wars are raging. The great Greek warrior Achilles - who is in a furious sulk after being dishonoured by Agamemnon - has withdrawn from combat. He ...

Joe Goodkin is a Chicago-based singer and songwriter who has spent much of his career reimagining Homeric stories through original songs and playing his music internationally in the bardic tradition.

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Wilson also works to reduce every main male character in the Iliad down to a foolish, selfish simpleton. Achilles and Hector are two characters Wilson treats with the utmost disrespect—even ...

It’s a Greek epic poem which discusses the last final weeks of the Trojan War and the main characters of this text are ...

climaxing with the death of Hector at the hands of Achilles (as written about by Homer in The Iliad) and continuing with the creation of the Trojan horse by Odysseus, the means by which Troy is ...

Your browser does not support the audio element. In episode one of Among the Ancients, Emily and Tom begin with a beginning, Homer’s Iliad: its depictions of anger ...