The Iliad begins with the rage of “murderous, doomed” Achilles on the eve of battle and ends with the funeral of Hector, killed by Achilles. As you point out, ...

And Achilles versus Hector, the Trojan prince who kills Patroclus, Achilles’s closest friend. The high moment of the poem is arguably the encounter between Achilles and Hector.

And Achilles versus Hector, the Trojan prince who kills Patroclus, Achilles’s closest friend. The high moment of the poem is arguably the encounter between Achilles and Hector.

After Achilles kills Hector, he strips him naked and drags his corpse behind his chariot three times around the walls of Troy. Brutality engenders brutality. When Hamas attacked Israel on Oct. 7, 2023 ...

Achilles must find out what has happened during the intervening decade, uncover the secrets of his rebirth, seek out his fellow Myrmidons, and kill loads and loads of monsters in as gory a fashion ...

The Iliad is a story of war between Greeks and Trojans, but also of “beefs”. Menelaus versus Paris over the hand of Helen. Achilles versus Agamemnon, the king of the Greeks who wrongs him by ...

Is that what kills Hector, that he's so much of a man that he's always going out ahead of others, and is that what drives the rage of Achilles, being so much of a man that he's got an almost more ...

This summer marks the fourth time Court Theatre has mounted Lisa Peterson and Denis O'Hare's “An Iliad.” Based on Robert ...

The archetype of the Western warrior is Homer’s Achilles. ... Achilles not only kills the Trojan prince Hector but then drags his body around Troy for his horrified parents and widow to see.