The end of The Iliad is marked by two funerals and a rage. In the 23rd book of the epic poem, the great Greek hero Achilles ...

Exploring the threads of agape in the Iliad, Odyssey, and the Bible—how ancient gods, a heroic wanderer, and the divine ...

Poetry has great power to move the hearts of men and women. It cannot be entirely wrong to wish for one great poet to have ...

The Iliad considers the Greek heroes as a group ... the quarrel between Ulysses and Achilles, and the fierce words that they heaped on one another as they sat together at a banquet.

Achilles was a central hero in the ancient Greek tradition, but he doesn't meet the modern conception of a hero. This is the mythology of Achilles explained.

Greeks were on the Indian subcontinent quite some time prior to the composition of the the great Indian epic poem, the ...

The proposed names suggest that vengeance is the main agenda.

The anguish in Lebanese archaeologist Nader Siklaoui’s voice is clear as he films Israeli missiles slamming down near ancient ...

While there, Alexander the Great visited the tomb of Achilles, a hero of the Trojan War who was known as being the greatest of all the Greek warriors. Alexander the Great’s visit to Troy Alexander the ...

The museum’s enormous Roman sarcophagi featuring reliefs of scenes from the Trojan W ar — like the king of Troy begging the Greek hero Achilles for his son Hector’s body — attest to ...