Of these, the climactic battle to which all the epic action has been driving is the ferocious duel between the Greek Achilles and the Trojan Hector. Despite their very different personalities ...

Caroline Alexander notes that the recent killing of US Rangers in Mogadishu and the dragging of their bodies behind Jeeps through the streets echoes the fate of Hector at the hands of Achilles.

The Iliad and battle rap share deep roots in oral tradition, fame, skill, and conflict—both asking what’s truly worth ...

After the leaks and rumors surrounding the next Total War game, we finally have ... the two main combat characters of the era, Hector of Troy and Achilles of Greece. Developers Creative Assembly ...

One new book you can buy for either the Nook or the Kindle, or even an old school ink on paper is "The War That Killed Achilles ... we already have a confrontation between Achilles and his ...

The parallel between the two Achilles’ and ... One cannot help but love both Hector and Achilles, though they battle one another and for two different causes. One can easily feel empathy for ...

Emily Wilson’s translation of the “Iliad” brings Homer’s great war story to rousing ... with an apparently petty squabble between two Greek warriors, Achilles and Agamemnon.

Sing, O Muse, of the rage of Achilles ... the climax of the tale, Hector's death, from the perspective of Briseis, who learns of it not by seeing the battle but from the far-away wails of ...

Achilles was a private in Company D of the 19th Louisiana Infantry of the Confederate Army. In 1862, just after Achilles began serving in combat, he became ill at Corinth, Mississippi.