Very little has changed in the 2,700 years since Homer composed his epic. Like Odysseus, we long for home, make mistakes and grieve the time we’ve lost. “The Odyssey” begins with a line asking the ...

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

King Idomeneus was the ruler of Crete in the time of the Trojan War, and he participated in that event according to Greek ...

One story that incessantly echoes is that of Achilles in the Iliad whose sense of betrayal by his commander, Agamemnon, who ...