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

Achilles faces King Priam in a night-time encounter during the Trojan War, choosing mercy over vengeance and revealing his humanity.

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.

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 ...

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 ...