Both art forms encourage us, the listeners, to react, reflect and ultimately select with which speaker to side.

The “Iliad" offers many archetypes of masculinity, not just the performative machismo that Achilles and Agamemnon display. We see the persuasive tongue of Odysseus in action when, in Book 2 ...

Agamemnon appeases the god by agreeing to ... However, by the end of the “Iliad,” Achilles appears to have finally become self-aware, to learn something important about himself and to change ...

A new translation of Homer's Iliad has just been published by Emily Wilson, who was the first woman to translate The Odyssey into English. The classicist and author Natalie Haynes talks to her ...

Greek mythology fans and history buffs can go back to where it all started with Emily Wilson’s brand-new translation of Homer’s ’The Iliad,’ the original story of Achilles and the Trojan War.

So here we stand at the end, the Trojans have pushed back the Acheans. Achilles is nowhere to be seen and Agamemnon tries to find some way to convince him to join the battle. Zeus, tired of the ...

Agamemnon appeases the god by agreeing to ... However, by the end of the “Iliad,” Achilles appears to have finally become self-aware, to learn something important about himself and to change ...