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 ...

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.

Schliemann believed he had found the body of the mythical king Agamemnon, who led the Achaean (Greek) siege of Troy in ...

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 ...

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.

"The Iliad" is one of the foundational works of Western literature and thought. It’s an old story that continues to resonate in our time and has been given new life in a translation by ...

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 ...