Directed by Wolfgang Petersen, who assembled a suitably heroic cast featuring the likes of Brad Pitt, Peter O’Toole, Brian ...

En-pap X and Sukkalgir were slaves and Gal-Sal, their trader. What's more, the oldest written poem that exists from Greece, The Iliad of Homer, starts off with Achilles and Agamemnon arguing over the ...

Several important and beautiful discoveries of Mycenaean gold objects have been made by archaeologists, particularly in royal ...

World had a fascinating, super, soaraway exclusive on recently deceased Portadown loyalist Muriel Gibson. Which meant that ...

This summer marks the fourth time Court Theatre has mounted Lisa Peterson and Denis O'Hare's “An Iliad.” Based on Robert ...

Archaeologists in the UK uncovered a mosaic from the Roman era depicting the famous battle between two protagonists of the ...

Achilles versus Agamemnon, the king of the Greeks who wrongs him by expropriating one of his slaves. And Achilles versus Hector, the Trojan prince who kills Patroclus, Achilles’s closest friend.

The Iliad is a story of war between Greeks and Trojans, but also of “beefs”. Menelaus versus Paris over the hand of Helen. Achilles versus Agamemnon, the king of the Greeks who wrongs him by ...

The seven principal heroes of the Trojan War, from left to right, Menelaus, Paris, Diomedes, Ulysses, Nestor, Achilles and Agamemnon, in an illustration by Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein from ...

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 ...

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.

The first two volumes of Barker’s series focused on Briseis, the captured queen who becomes an object of contention between Achilles and Agamemnon in “The Iliad.” ...