One of the most powerful passages in The Iliad is in Book 18, when a weeping Greek soldier comes to the tent of Achilles and tells him that his lifelong friend Patroclus has fallen in battle ...

"Reconstructing the Shield of Achilles" by Kathleen Vail is an ... Based literally and solely on Homer's specifications in Book 18 of the Iliad, Vail's life-size shield is made of brass sheets ...

Modern-day readers may believe that they’ll need body armor to meet the barrage of challenges awaiting them in “The Iliad ... while Book 18’s chronicle of Achilles’ new armor, reportedly ...

The late Richmond Lattimore’s (University of Chicago Press) Iliad first stepped onto the field in 1951 and now returns with a storied shield and ... says to his Achilles: To me you are the ...

Is this, he seems to ask, where the Homeric vision of the warrior-hero has led our species? But in the shield of Achilles, described in book 18 of the Iliad, we see Homer hammer a different tableau.

The “Iliad" offers many archetypes of masculinity, not just the performative machismo that Achilles and Agamemnon display. We see the persuasive tongue of Odysseus in action when, in Book 2 ...

Bathtubs play a small but significant role in the Iliad. At the end of Book 10 the Greek heroes Diomedes ... a physical improbability than a spear ripping through a shield. The god doesn’t want ...

But one evening, the book she chose made me ... of the terrible rage of Achilles.” For several months, I had the pleasure of hearing the Iliad just as its first audiences did: out loud.