AMNA NAWAZ: Achilles and Hector, Helen of Troy and King Priam, the world of "The Iliad," one of the foundational works of Western literature and thought.

This, then, is the Helen of Wilson’s Iliad, which may well be the same as the Helen of Homer’s Iliad.. “I want the reader to understand that she’s very smart,” she says. “We get to see ...

It should be recalled, too, that although the “Iliad” ends before the fall of Troy, Menelaus is said by later Greek sources to have forgiven Helen and to have lived in happy, monogamous ...

Amna Nawaz: Achilles and Hector, Helen of Troy and King Priam, the world of "The Iliad," one of the foundational works of Western literature and thought.

But, more than 3,000 years after events described in The Iliad, Helen is to undergo a dramatic historical reappraisal. According to a controversial new book, she was more likely to have been a ...

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 ...

Ange Mlinko, reviewing my book Homer and His Iliad, states that I climbed ‘Mount Gargaron to describe the carpet of golden crocuses’ on which Zeus and Hera made love in the Iliad (LRB, 2 November 2023 ...

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