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

Published in 1955, the poem draws on a passage of Homer’s Iliad, where the lame blacksmith god Hephaestus, at the request of Thetis, Achilles’ mother, fashions a magnificent shield for the ...

Hephaestus instead presents Thetis with a shield that depicts the destructiveness of war and Achilles’s bleak future ... our etchings of pasts made possible only by deaths and the passage ...

Wearing the trademark armor of Achilles, Patroclus sets forth to battle against Troy. (Homer's Iliad contains timeless lessons of war.) The Olympian god Apollo (depicted in a relief from the ...

The Atlanta Falcons gave Kirk Cousins a four-year, $180 million contract with $100 million guaranteed this offseason despite the fact he tore his Achilles ... Cousins made a rather concerning ...

It is only a fragment of the truth, which needs to be put forward and made a part of the historical ... the warrior-hero has led our species? But in the shield of Achilles, described in book 18 of the ...