Gilgamesh, the builder-king of Uruk, and Achilles, the destroyer-prince of Phthia, represent the primal archetypes of the ...

In one of those rare but welcome departures from local norms, a play is being performed in Springfield that probably hasn’t ...

While Odysseus and Achilles fought for the same cause, they embody two different approaches to ancient Greek heroism.

When discussing ancient mythology, especially in Greece and Rome, there is often an emphasis on the men of the time. Achilles, Agamemnon, Odysseus, and Aeneas, all of the masculine heroes that ...

While Game of Thrones may not have ended how people wanted, 15 years before that, though, David Benioff wrote a sprawling ...

A lone poet, lamenting his fading memory and the dying interest in his art, wanders on stage singing in what sounds like Greek. The story he has to tell is a familiar one, with Greek heroes and a ...

Brad Pitt starred in Troy, a massive historical epic that proved to have some of the best onscreen battles ever.

In that couplet Pope was responding to a long-standing tradition that linked character with maleness. When sometime around 320 BCE Theophrastus wrote the text which became known as his Characters, the ...

SHEFFIELD, England -- Niina Petrokina completed one of figure skating's great comeback performances to retain her European championship title Friday, three months after Achilles tendon surgery.

Despite some fine performances, this Shakespeare Bash'd revival proves why “Troilus and Cressida” is so rarely produced.