Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal lack direction, and “The Trojans,” a spirited football-themed Iliad, heads for the end ...

Unlike Achilles, the idealized warrior of The Iliad, Odysseus is a survivor ... grief, or fear of death. And running beneath it all is the presence of the divine. The gods in The Odyssey are ...

He was chased down by his own hunting dogs and mauled to death. Other versions do not attest ... her that she had been promised in marriage to Achilles. The ploy worked, and when Iphigenia arrived ...

See petersommer.com Whether its demise bore much resemblance to the narrative laid down in Homer’s epic poem The Iliad (and the movie retelling with Brad Pitt as Achilles), Troy has long haunted ...

Both of them caused the death of many men by their ... the long-haired Achaeans of Achilles. Ancient Greek tradition saw in the Iliad and Odyssey the two halves of the same great Homeric epic.

Death and property, you could say ... as the ancient ritual gesture called ‘supplication’, as when Priam comes to the tent of Achilles at the end of the Iliad and supplicates for the body of his son.

The ancients believed as Homer’s Iliad claimed, that “war will be men’s business ... and symbolized – to ancient men at least – a world turned on its head. Achilles slaying Amazon queen and ancient ...

In the Iliad, did Homer really describe the type of warfare common to the Mycenaean Era? Or was he describing the warfare of ...

Tiger Woods announced Tuesday that he has suffered a ruptured left Achilles tendon ... been away from the sport while he mourned the death of his mother earlier this year, competing in TGL ...