Homer's Iliad has a vast cast of characters. Many of these names are less familiar to mainstream audiences than mighty ...
“I’ve read Ajax,” their companion replied, assuringly. “It’s not complicated.” Maybe it’s this interpretation, then, which frames the mythological drama of Trojan war hero Ajax as an American ...
The shifts associated with being in your 40s and 50s – gray hairs, career doldrums, a longing for something more – seem as ...
Odysseus, who later undertook a famous journey back home ... Credit: Wikimedia Commons, CC-BY 3.0 Ajax the Lesser, Ajax the Great and Achilles Three other prominent leaders include Ajax the Lesser, ...
When we meet Ajax, he’s a flurry of energy murdering the spoils of war because after the hero Achilles’ death, he has not been awarded Achilles’ armor — which he believes he is most worthy of ...
Christopher Nolan’s adaptation of “The Odyssey” will be partly filmed in Sicily which, according to scholars, was a location for Odysseus’ wanderings in the epic composed by Homer around ...