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

The current state of global media, and particularly Pakistani journalism, often triggers memories from my varied professional experiences - as a TV anchor, producer, print journalist and university ...

In an extraordinary episode featuring the Iliad's central hero Achilles, Homer uses direct narrative to position the eco-warrior. For much of the Iliad, Achilles is effectively on strike ...

Achilles Harris was a husband, father, and private from a town named Athens in Claiborne Parish, Louisiana. He wrote home to ...

The University of Exeter put a trigger warning on two classic pieces of ancient Greek literature, Homer’s “The Iliad” and ...

Achilles: Legends Untold is out now on Nintendo Switch. It is also available on PC, PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X|S, and Xbox One. Watch the Achilles: Legends Untold Nintendo Switch launch trailer for ...

The UK Royal Navy (RN) has changed the name of the final Astute class nuclear-powered submarines to HMS Achilles.

The Education of Achilles, by Bénigne Gagneraux (1785). Source: Bénigne Gagneraux on Wikimedia Commons/public domain In the Iliad, Homer calls Chiron the "wisest and justest of all the centaurs." ...

Alexander the Great visited the city of Troy while on his campaign against the Persian Empire. What did he do while he was there?

climaxing with the death of Hector at the hands of Achilles (as written about by Homer in The Iliad) and continuing with the creation of the Trojan horse by Odysseus, the means by which Troy is ...

Your browser does not support the audio element. In episode one of Among the Ancients, Emily and Tom begin with a beginning, Homer’s Iliad: its depictions of anger ...