Homer's Iliad has a vast cast of characters. Many of these names are less familiar to mainstream audiences than mighty ...
Credit: Andreas Trepte / CC BY-Sa 2.5 / Wikimedia Commons In the Iliad, written by Homer in the seventh century ... Credit: Wikimedia Commons, CC-BY 3.0 Ajax the Lesser, Ajax the Great and Achilles ...
The two most famous epics of antiquity, Homer’s “Iliad” and “Odyssey,” though known today as standalone works, were episodes in a larger compendium of mythology. While the “Iliad ...