Homer’s epic poem The Iliad shows the same thing, too. One cannot help but love both Hector and Achilles, though they battle one another and for two different causes. One can easily feel empathy ...

Ask someone who has read the poem to name its hero, and the reply will probably be Achilles and, if not, his friend Patroclus or his enemy Hector. But Weil replies that the true hero is none of ...

It’s a Greek epic poem which discusses the last final weeks of the Trojan War and the main characters of this text are ...