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Guided by Athena, Achilles strikes the fatal blow against Hector and plunges his spear into the Trojan’s throat. Painting by Peter Paul Rubens, circa 1630, Museum of Fine Art, Pau, France.

Once in Troy, Achilles must face off against Paris and his brother, Prince Hector (Eric Bana), in a battle to the death. ... At NYU, Mary-Kate will be studying culinary arts and art history.

This is Vengeance of Achilles (1962), by the American artist Cy Twombly, the first work visitors see upon entering the darkened galleries of Troy: Myth and Reality, a vast new exhibition ...

Did Helen of Troy's face really launch a thousand ships? Was Achilles' one weakness his heel, and most importantly, did the Trojan War really happen as told in Homer's The Iliad — Trojan Horse ...

It takes real cash to be Spartan: Brad Pitt plays a bronzed, maxim-spouting Achilles in Wolfgang Petersen's $175-million toga-and-breastplate fantasy, Troy. Achilles to Olympus: Bring ...

The Greeks liked their wine watered down. Their taste for drama, on the other hand, was fantastically heady. This “krater,” a bowl for mixing water with wine, is one of the finest things in ...

A novel exploring the encounter from the “Iliad” between King Priam of Troy and his bitter enemy Achilles. ... the “Iliou Persis,” or “Sack of Troy,” and often represented in ancient art.