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According to the legendary epic poem by Homer, the Trojan War was one of the most destructive in Greek history. It involved ...
To the editor: It surprises me that Jesse Browner doesn’t consider President Trump as Paris in his “Iliad” analogy ("If Trump were one of the rogues from Homer’s ‘Iliad,’ which would ...
Both art forms encourage us, the listeners, to react, reflect and ultimately select with which speaker to side.
including Homer’s epic poem The Iliad, which is at least 2,500 years old. The cause of war is Helen’s elopement from the Spartan court with Paris, a Trojan prince. Helen is the wife of ...
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 ...