June 28, 2023 In one of the most moving and memorable scenes from the “Iliad,” the great Trojan warrior Hector says farewell to his wife, Andromache, who has urged him not to risk his life by ...

A new translation of Homer's Iliad has just been published by Emily ... The Trojans – led by Hector – have resisted for 10 years. Into this mortal combat come an additional cast of gods ...

Homer’s Iliad is one of the foundational stories of ... wrongs him by expropriating one of his slaves. And Achilles versus Hector, the Trojan prince who kills Patroclus, Achilles’s closest ...

THE ILIAD, by Homer. Translated by Emily Wilson. “War is a task for men,” the Trojan prince Hector says to his wife, Andromache, in Emily Wilson’s propulsive new translation of Homer’s ...

The challenges of producing a new metrical verse translation of a viscerally emotional, richly varied ancient epic poem go far beyond any individual word. An epic is an ultramarathon, not a sprint.

“Ulysse” will also involve mythological characters from “The Iliad and the Odyssey,” such as Achilles, Helen, Hector and Penelope. Homer is known as one of the greatest of the ancient ...

Homer’s The Iliad is one of the foundational stories ... And Achilles versus Hector, the Trojan prince who kills Patroclus, Achilles’s closest friend. The high moment of the poem is arguably ...