The “Iliad" offers many archetypes of masculinity, not just the performative machismo that Achilles and Agamemnon display. We see the persuasive tongue of Odysseus in action when, in Book 2, he ...

Principals of the Trojan War, from left: Menelaus, Paris, Diomedes, Ulysses, Nestor, Achilles and Agamemnon. The illustration is by Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein from an 1842 book.

One of two great epic poems by Homer to survive from ancient Greece, The Iliad unfolds across two months in the final year of the Trojan War. The Greeks – led by Agamemnon, and with Achilles as ...

In Book 3 of “The Iliad,” Helen points out the Greek leader, Agamemnon, to Priam, king of Troy, and comments that he was once her kinsman, as the brother of her former husband, Menelaus ...

Several important and beautiful discoveries of Mycenaean gold objects have been made by archaeologists, particularly in royal ...

How a translation of 'The Iliad' into modern language reinforces its relevance. ... not like Achilles and Agamemnon slaughtering each other, but argue with each other in productive ways. ...

As a leader, Agamemnon lived his life this way and made others do so as well. Justice is the virtue of giving to each his due, and the principle of the Agamemnon effect is that he was an unjust king.

Agamemnon “disrespects” the fleet-footed fighter, Achilles, by poaching his concubine, Chryseis, a confrontation that launches the “The Iliad.” (Wilson’s matter-of-fact voice serves to ...

I reread the “Iliad” most recently in January, not long after the change of administration in Washington. What I found at this particular juncture in American politics was that the principals ...