The Greeks are fighting a deadly plague, courtesy of Apollo, when “The Iliad” begins. The punishment owes to Achaean leader Agamemnon’s having swiped Chryseis, the daughter of Apollo’s ...

What is the true origin of the Oracle of Delphi, who was said to have been involved in events as far back as the Trojan War?

(Homer's Iliad contains timeless lessons of war.) The Olympian god Apollo (depicted in a relief from the Temple of Apollo Palatinus, Rome) opposed the Greeks during the Trojan War.

In the Iliad the shade of the dead never sleeps (whatever that may mean !). The soul, however reluctant to part with the body, must dart instantly and in eager haste down to the under-world.

The Iliad: Book 1 Lucille Lortel Theater, 199 seats, $39 top Production: An Aquila Theater presentation by special arrangement with the Lucille Lortel Foundation of a play in one act from the epic ...

The new ‘Iliad’ translation is a genuine page-turner In her translation of Homer’s classic poem of the Trojan War, Emily Wilson perfectly balances the epic and the everyday ...

Timothy Edward Kane stars as The Poet in “An Iliad,” a remount of an adaptation of Homer’s ancient Greek epic poem about the Trojan War that premiered at the Court Theatre in 2011.