While Odysseus and Achilles fought for the same cause, they embody two different approaches to ancient Greek heroism.

Achilles’ tales from the Civil War battlefront aren’t so very different than those of Achilles from the front lines of the Trojan War. Thanks to the ancient, epic poet Homer, we can understand ...

The heroes met, and Hector was killed. Achilles himself died at the hand of Paris, whose arrow found his heel, and the war was ended by a trick: Ulysses’ famed stratagem of the wooden horse.

And Snake Island was raised from the sea bed by the goddess Thetis, as a refuge for the soul of her son, Achilles – yes, the hero of the Trojan War, whose heel spawned an ancient aphorism. According ...

Eliot Cohen is a respected military historian. I have most of his books in my professional library and I was one of his ...

Episode 6. videoEpisode 6 Achilles is killed by an arrow to the heel...and Odysseus has a plan for a secret weapon to end the war. The events of the Trojan War are written about in a number of ...

Greek mythology is prominent in art dating from antiquity through to the renaissance and even in contemporary artwork. During ...

After the Trojan War, Hades, the god of death, resurrected Achilles to use in his schemes against the other gods. When Hades’ plans were fulfilled, he claimed Achilles’ soul and cast him into ...

Courtesy Lawrence Dillon/Aristos Tales of the Trojan War — especially “The Iliad ... between the glorious-but-doomed Greek warrior Achilles and his beloved, the prince Patroclus.

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 ...