Iliad is like a battle rap, an art form where people confront one another in a freestyle rap that includes boasts, insults ...

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 ... battle to the death, Hector offers ...

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

It's tempting to imagine writers casting cricketers as their central characters: men and women who stride out of the pavilion ...

‘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 ...

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 ...