In the Iliad, did Homer really describe the type of warfare common to the Mycenaean Era? Or was he describing the warfare of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

The story of Achilles: Legends Untold begins with a retelling of the battle between the Achaeans (Homer’s term for Greeks in the Illiad) and the city of Troy, otherwise known as the Trojan War.

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 ...