The Song of Achilles” by Madeline Miller is a retelling of the Trojan War from the perspective of Patroclus, a young Greek ...

Nowadays, few people know that Hermione is a character in Homer's Odyssey. But what is her significance and role in Greek ...

Wolfgang Petersen's "Troy," based on Homer's epic poem "The Iliad," is an ambitious but flawed sword-and-sandal saga with pretty actors, computer-generated armies and fleets of ships, and no interplay ...

Achilles is killed by a flukey arrow to the heel and Odysseus has a plan for a secret weapon to end the war - a wooden horse. The Old Soldier returns to the prophecy that Achilles will be killed at ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Jean-Baptiste Lully and (following Lully's death) his disciple Pascal Collasse set to music a libretto by Jean Galbert de Campistron that ...

Archaeologists in Pompeii have uncovered a black-walled banqueting hall adorned with vivid frescoes depicting scenes from Greek mythology. The well-preserved wall paintings depict deity Apollo seeking ...

The name Iphigenia has been synonymous with ancient Greek tragedy and mythology, as well as the concept of sacrifice, for millennia.

The announcement of Hades 2 has raised many questions about what figures from Greek mythology will be represented in the much-anticipated sequel. Although the original game had a great cast of gods, ...