One of the most interesting characters in the Iliad is neither a god nor a hero, and only appears for one altercation. Apart from Dolon, Th...

Anger be now your song, immortal one, Akhilleus’ anger, doomed and ruinous... – Opening lines of the Iliad , transl. Robert Fitzgerald. ...

One of the many ground-breaking inventions of early civilisations was a method of recording spoken language: writing. This began as an indis...