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

Emily Wilson, author of an acclaimed recent translation of the Iliad, reads this as “a human fighting the landscape”. Yet, by bringing the slaughter to the river, Achilles is showcasing the ...

videoEpisode 4 Achilles is refusing to fight and sends cousin Patroclus into ... including Homer’s epic poem The Iliad, which is at least 2,500 years old. The cause of war is Helen’s elopement ...