Achilles, the swift-footed, answered thus : — “ O goddess, be the word thou bring’st obeyed, However just my anger, for to him Who hearkens to the gods, the gods give ear.” ...

Sound familiar? However, by the end of the “Iliad,” Achilles appears to have finally become self-aware, to learn something important about himself and to change, perhaps even to soften ...

The Iliad is a story of war between Greeks and Trojans, but also of “beefs”. Menelaus versus Paris over the hand of Helen. Achilles versus Agamemnon, the king of the Greeks who wrongs him by ...

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.

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 ...

Having read The Iliad in English and the original Greek dozens of times over the past three decades, Reitzammer also is struck by how different facets of the poem have shone through or faded away with ...

Achilles and Hector, Helen of Troy and King Priam, the world of "The Iliad," one of the foundational works of Western literature and thought. It's an old story set amid a long-ago forever war that ...

“The Iliad” begins with the word “mēnin ... some insults simply do not have a non-comical modern rendition. For instance, Achilles calls Agamemnon “you dog-face” at the beginning ...

Since the “Iliad” deals with raw violence and a violent fighter, Achilles, whose rage at his own commander centers its loosely organized plot, the less savage and more linear tale of Odysseus ...