The enthusiasm and plaudits have continued with the release of Wilson’s translation of The Iliad (W.W. Norton & Co.) in September, which TheWashington Post called “a genuine page-turner,” despite its ...

It’s called “Troy.”Based on “The Iliad” and its 2,700-year-old chronicle of jealousy, pride, cowardice, sacrifice and war, the […] Skip to content. All Sections. Subscribe Now °F.

Hector is, in fact, of all the stately figures in the poem, the most pathetic, and also the most blameless. Achilles fights for glory, and afterward for revenge.

A: Well it started in 2003, not long after we went into Iraq. I was looking at war plays, and I was thinking that was the subject that was most important for us to address as theater makers. A ...

Erasmus quoted the Iliad in a time of widening war:. Men get their fill of sleep and love, of beautiful singing and carefree dance, but they never get enough of war. And they never get enough of ...

HECTOR’S VISIT TO ILIOS. (Iliad VI. 237-502.) When now Hector arrived at the Scæean gate and the beech-tree, Round him quickly were gathered the daughters and wives of the Trojans, Asking for ...

Homer and His Iliad; By Robin Lane Fox; Basic Books; 464 pp., $32.50. Lane Fox spends the first half of the book making the case that Homer was indeed a real person (a few critics have questioned ...

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 ...

With the first presidential debate of the 2024 election between Donald Trump and Joe Biden set for Thursday, a critic calls on Homer and psychoanalysis to survive till November and beyond.

PAWTUCKET, R.I. — In “An Iliad,” which received both an Obie and Lucille Lortel Award for its 2012 off-Broadway production, playwrights Lisa Peterson and Denis O’Hare offer a compressed ...

“Ulysse” will also involve mythological characters from “The Iliad and the Odyssey,” such as Achilles, Helen, Hector and Penelope.