The Iliad is a poem of violence, with many of the scores of deaths described in excruciating detail. But the fight is not ...

Homer's Iliad has a vast cast of characters. Many of these names are less familiar to mainstream audiences than mighty ...

Soldiers are different. They are servants of the state. In well-governed countries, they are bound by discipline, the rule of ...

Achilles fighting Memnon during the Trojan War, depicted on a vase from Vulci, 510 BCE. Credit: Wikimedia Commons, public domain However, if forces from all of Greece were besieging one city, how on ...

A special stage production of “An Iliad” will be performed at 7:30 p.m. Jan. 24-25, 31, Feb. 1 and 2 p.m. Jan. 26 and Feb. 2 at the Haywood Arts Regional Theatre in Waynesville.  A modern retelling of ...

Matt Damon, Tom Holland, Zendaya, Lupita Nyong’o, Robert Pattinson and Anne Hathaway are among the cast for the director’s take on the epic poem.

Christopher Nolan's next feature film will be an adaptation of Homer’s “The Odyssey,” an epic Greek poem from eighth century ...

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Hanno is defined by the film’s most formidable character, Macrinus, played by the Mephistophelean Denzel Washington, as a person who is driven by rage—which is the first word of the founding tome of ...

The onerous new immigration bill would empower state attorneys general to force wholesale visa denials. It turns out Bannon ...

Odyssey is the fourth, and possibly the last, book in Fry’s recounting of Greek myths and also the least faithful to the ...