Behind the battles, blood and glory, Homer presents two very different kinds of heroes, Achilles and Hector. Both are great ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Homer's The Iliad is a landmark of ancient Greek literature, and many famous artists continue to portray it in their artworks.

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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.