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 ...

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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.

Scores of lives are lost in “The Iliad”’s thunderous confrontations — more so for the Greeks, who flounder against Troy without Achilles’ help. When he rejoins, it’s all the more gruesome.

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 ...

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 ...

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.