Patroclus joins battle wearing Achilles's golden armour ... See Resources below for a quiz about the story episode. Learn the ‘Lament’ - about the suffering on both sides of the conflict.

The words of the ancient Greek author Homer have echoed across the centuries. His magnum opus, the Iliad, which recounts the ...

Rereading the epic in January, I found that the quarrelsome and dysfunctional principals had become an oddly familiar cast of ...

An Old Soldier remembers the ten-year war at Troy and the events which led up to it: Paris, Helen, Menelaus, Agamemnon, Priam, Achilles, Patroclus ... s epic poem The Iliad, which is at least ...