The Greeks are fighting a deadly plague, courtesy of Apollo, when “The Iliad” begins. The punishment owes to Achaean leader Agamemnon’s having swiped Chryseis, the daughter of Apollo’s ...

(Homer's Iliad contains timeless lessons of war.) The Olympian god Apollo (depicted in a relief from the Temple of Apollo Palatinus, Rome) opposed the Greeks during the Trojan War.

Every generation finds The Iliad anew: it holds up a mirror to the ... because we also know [the gods] Apollo and Poseidon will let all the rivers create environmental disaster and the plain ...

of whom Apollo (the archer god and god of afar) is the main figure. The Iliad is only one poetic work focused on the war for Troy; many others have not survived. But such is its quality and depth ...

Apollo heeds the angry prayers of his servant ... she has been working “intensively” on her version of the “Iliad” for six years. Her thoughtful, scholarly introduction helps a modern ...

I reread the “Iliad” most recently in January ... daughter of a priest of Apollo, who punishes him by inflicting a plague upon the Greeks. Agamemnon appeases the god by agreeing to return ...