Hector and Iliad VI
Homer?s Iliad is the tale of the ninth year of the Trojan War, narrating events in both the Trojan city and the Achaean camp. The work is grand in its scope and remains character driven; for this reason we still discuss Achilles, Odysseus, Hector, and Paris as if they were real people.
The Menelaion: A Local Manifestation of a Pan-Hellenic Phenomenon
Sparta, the mythological birthplace and home of the Homeric heroine, was alleged to have worshiped her at two sites, at a shrine within the polis and at a shrine several kilometers outside the polis.8 We know very little about the former shrine, but the latter has been archaeologically attested; the partial walls and foundations of a fifth-century BCE monument to Helen of Sparta and her husband Menelaos, known as the Menelaion, have been recovered on a ridge near the west bank of the Eurotas.
Young Achilles in the Roman World
Achilles is the only epic hero whose life can be followed quite literally from the cradle to the grave
Penelope: A Female Heroine Worthy of Admiration
In Homer
Phaedrus The Fabulous
Phaedrus, far from being a Greek freedman striving to inscribe himself among the élite of Latin letters, was a Roman aristocrat masquerading as a man of the people to say in fable what could not safely be otherwise said.
Troy and Homer
Troy and Homer Ian Morris Princeton/Stanford Working Papers in Classics: November (2005) Abstract This is a review of Joachim Latacz’s book Troy and…
Tiberiana 2: Tales of Brave Ulysses
The prime evidence for this was discovered fifty years ago in the numerous fragments of four massive sculptural groups in marble, found by chance in 1957 in a seaside cavern which was part of a large villa complex on the coast at Sperlonga, 65 miles south of Rome.