In Homer’s poem “The Iliad,” the Trojan hero Hector and the Greek hero Achilles are destined for a showdown from the very beginning. The poem marches with unwavering steps toward this inevitable ...

The Iliad begins in the original Greek with the single word 'wrath' (menis). It depicts only about fifty days in the tenth year of the Trojan War. The prologue tells us that the wrath of Achilles ...

I have been studying Greek history for a very long time. In fact, I learned ancient and medieval Greek history at the University of Illinois and received a doctorate in modern Greek and European ...

TroyReleased 2004 / Produced in USA[Story]Prince Paris falls in love with the Queen of Sparta and takes her back to his home ...

A Roman mosaic discovered beneath a farmer’s field in Rutland, England, was initially reported as a depiction of scenes from Homer’s Iliad. That identification, widely circulated when the find became ...

Homer depicts Hector as the ideal hero, who shows his softer side. “The Farewell of Hector to Andromache and Astyanax,” before 1918, by Karl Friedrich Deckler.