“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.

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 ...

The Iliad' is a poem about how men fight for control ... question of what happens when a very powerful man, in this case Achilles, refuses to accept a loss, and what happens in terms of the ...

On Wednesday, March 12, the Trojan War began in Ithaca with the powerful cries of Emily Wilson speaking in Ancient Greek. Yet ...

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 ...

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

Joe Goodkin is a Chicago-based singer and songwriter who has spent much of his career reimagining Homeric stories through ...

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 ...