The mighty have fallen. England, Germany, France, Spain, Russia and Italy–the great powers of the 20th Century–lie in smoldering ruins. The new masters of Europe are Portugal and Greece… ...

Hector died at the hands of Achilles. Evaggelos Vallianatos, Ph.D., studied history and biology at the University of Illinois; earned his Ph.D. in Greek and European history at the University of ...

Achilles is more like a petulant teenager than the Terminator, lounging in his room and playing his lyre while comrades suffer against prince Hector and the high-spirited Trojan warriors.

I brought some of my team members from the Amsterdam Troy Project to sit and react to the 2004 epic Troy with me! Even though we can't get to Troy this year to carry out our excavations, we can still ...

Love and war with Achilles, Hector, and Helen of Troy in a hot new telling of Homer’s epic “The Iliad.” Scene from Book XXIV of the Iliad: Hector's corpse brought back to Troy (detail).

Exit Hector, Again and Again: How Different Translators Reveal the ‘Iliad’ Anew. Over the years, some 100 people have translated the entire “Iliad” into English.