So long as religion has been discussed, the question has persisted: How can God exist when terrible things happen in the world, such as war, cancer, or an old soccer player suffering an injury? Such ...

In his introduction to the Robert Fagles translation of The Iliad, Bernard Knox tells us that in an epic filled with repeated shorthand descriptions—your “wine-dark sea” example, for instance, and ...

Achilles was a central hero in the ancient Greek tradition, but he doesn't meet the modern conception of a hero. This is the mythology of Achilles explained.

Achilles, the swift-footed, answered thus : — “ O goddess, be the word thou bring’st obeyed, However just my anger, for to him Who hearkens to the gods, the gods give ear.” ...