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

The Mycenaean civilization was the first advanced culture of mainland Greece, shaping the foundations of Greek identity, myth, and language.

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Thersites, the Jack Sparrow of the Trojan War was an anti-hero, challenging authority and embodying the tension between ...

‘The Iliad’, Emily Wilson writes, is the most gripping and heartbreaking work of literature that she knows. A manual for thinking about death and ... and Agamemnon, who’s kind of the Jeff ...

Books & the Arts / In her new book, Callard makes the case that we should all live more philosophically but where does politics fit in? Olúfémi O. Táíwò Agnes Callard’s Open Socrates is ...

One such example is seen toward the beginning of the "Iliad." In front of all the Greek soldiers at Troy, the character of Thersites makes a speech in which he accuses their commander, Agamemnon ...

Among the books I have returned to again and again throughout my life, seeking solace, wisdom, joy or self-understanding, Homer’s “Iliad” ranks ... the Greek king Agamemnon chooses as ...