Homer and Odysseus live in a world where there is no one morality common to all people. Odysseus is never condemned for being ...

There is an acute consciousness of the natural world in the Iliad, of its flux and fragility. Indeed, a significant barrier to identifying Homer's Troy with the remains of the ancient city of Troy ...

Near the end of poet Maria Zoccola's "Helen of Troy, 1993," the book's titular protagonist addresses the "gods of difficult ...

Iowa City's Riverside Theatre is entering the final week of performances for their run of The Cure at Troy, a play featuring ...

The majority of responses to Helen since the Iliad, nonetheless, have centred on the issue of her culpability. As the film Troy shows, Trojan War narratives still tend to pivot on Helen and her ...

Soldiers are different. They are servants of the state. In well-governed countries, they are bound by discipline, the rule of law, and commitment to comrades and organizations—not to ...

The Iliad has a vast cast of characters ... In the story, the Greek army besieges Troy after the abduction of the Spartan queen, Helen, by the Trojan prince, Paris. Much of the story follows Achilles, ...

Amid this clash of calm and chaos, Zoccola was on the “cusp of something” she could not yet grasp. She would capture this ...