“The Iliad” for millennials and Zoomers. As the Greek warrior Diomedes ducks an enemy’s spear, he “kept his cool.” Hector, exhausted from a day’s battle, takes a break inside ...

Bathtubs play a small but significant role in the Iliad. At the end of Book 10 the Greek heroes Diomedes and Odysseus go into the sea to wash off the sweat they have worked up during a night mission ...

Erasmus quoted the Iliad in a time of widening war: Men get their fill of sleep and love, of beautiful singing and carefree dance, but they never get enough of war. Men get their fill of sleep and ...

Because of Daylight Saving Time, the time zone difference is 20 hours for a part of the year. Located in the middle of the Bering Strait, the two islands known as Big and Little Diomedes belong to ...