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

Revenge is a recurring motif in the Iliad as a response to an affront. However, Hector's revenge on the Greek invaders is compromised because it is preordained that he will be killed and Troy taken.

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 ...

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The opening word of the Iliad is “rage”, and Achilles wins because he is stronger than Hector, but The Odyssey is a story in which considered and deliberate thinking prevails over animalistic ...

Michael Longley, the Irish poet whose long career included more than 40 books, died last week. He was lauded by literary, ...

Achilles, the mightiest warrior in Homer’s Iliad, described the sort of anger ... the battle following the death of Patroclus at Hector’s hands. It used to be said that revenge is a dish ...

In a rage over the death of his friend Patroclus in a fair fight, Achilles not only kills the Trojan prince Hector but then drags ... far better than Homer’s Iliad. To be sure, these are ideal ...