My dear friend Kori Schake has written a wonderful article at War on the Rocks in praise (mostly) of my new book, The Heroic Heart: Greatness Ancient and Modern. The book takes up the subject of how ...

The lover: Achilles Discovered by Ulysses , a work by artist Jan de Bray. Wikimedia Commons Book 18 of the Iliad opens with one of the most terrible moments in the classics. Here, the hero Achilles ...

One of the most powerful passages in The Iliad is in Book 18, when a weeping Greek soldier comes to the tent of Achilles and tells him that his lifelong friend Patroclus has fallen in battle, slain by ...

Two of Australia’s most visually inventive companies are reclaiming the romance between Achilles and Patroclus in a new show, Holding Achilles Founded in Sydney almost four decades ago, physical ...

Achilles frantic for the loss of Patroclus, rejecting the consolation of Thetis (1803) is a significant Neo-classical painting in Te Papa's collection. Its story is central to our comprehension and ...

Achilles’ heel was not his heel, but his love for another man. Or so Madeline Miller tells it in “The Song of Achilles,” a novel that skillfully retells and embellishes Homer’s tale of the Trojan War, ...

The Achilles of Homer’s The Iliad always seemed a bit of a head case, even by the standards of teenagers who first encounter him in high school lit classes. He had those anger issues, the ones that ...