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 would like to trace the spiritual history of Achilles. Achilles is a warrior and a commander. As a warrior, he overwhelmed his enemies and led his men by fighting at the forefront of the battlefield ...

74 x 104 cm. (29.1 x 40.9 in.) ...

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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.