Mythological retellings are all the rage in the world of publishing right now—from Madeline Miller’s Circe to Jenny Saint’s Elektra and Pat Barker’s The Silence of the Girls, contemporary fiction is ...

“The Wrath of Achilles,” which Aquila Theatre Company premiered Tuesday night at Lafayette College, is long on spectacle and short on drama. This sequel to “The Iliad: Book I,” which the innovative ...

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Like our Rig Veda, the Iliad is an oral work. It was ‘written’ around 800 years or so before the birth of Christ. Herodotus, the first historian who lived and wrote four centuries before the Christian ...