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 ...

New Book Reconstructs the Spectacular Appearance of Achilles' Shield from Homer's Iliad . Add a Show Listing: BOOKS. Email: Sign-up: ...

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.

According to Peter Green’s Homer, quoted by Colin Burrow, Achilles’ spear ‘stuck in the ground, after breaking through both layers of [Aeneas’] sheltering shield’ (LRB, 18 June).I take it that the ...

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 ...

From The Independent archive: Homer’s epic masterpiece isn’t just a poem, writes Madeline Miller – it’s a glimpse behind the veil of war, grief and mortality ...