I reread the “Iliad” most recently in January ... The next and far more likely candidate is Achilles, perhaps the most unlikable protagonist of the epic poem. Achilles is a petulant, thin-skinned, ...

Epic of the Earth: Reading Homer’s Iliad in the Fight for a Dying World by Edith Hall sees the signs of environmental collapse amid the adventures of Achilles.

videoEpisode 4 Achilles is refusing to fight and sends ... including Homer’s epic poem The Iliad, which is at least 2,500 years old. The cause of war is Helen’s elopement from the Spartan ...

The events of the Trojan War are written about in a number of works of Ancient Greek literature, including Homer’s epic poem ... hands of Achilles (as written about by Homer in The Iliad ...

I reread the “Iliad” most recently in January ... perhaps the most unlikable protagonist of the epic poem. Achilles is a petulant, thin-skinned, vengeful and narcissistic bully who clings ...